International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2025; August 29th.

FORUM: "Remembering the Legacy, Renewing Our Commitment to a Nuclear-Test Ban." International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2025. Nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. Leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage -- to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world. Strong non-proliferation efforts are under way. The Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Additional Protocols are innovative approaches that provide powerful new tools for detecting activities that violate the NPT and endanger world security. They deserve full implementation. The negotiations on proliferation of nuclear weapons by North Korea and Iran, involving all the permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany and Japan, are crucially important. They must be energetically pursued. Nothing can play as crucial a role in avoiding a nuclear war or nuclear terrorist threat as the elimination of nuclear weapons. There have been a number of significant developments, discussions and initiatives relevant to its goals and objectives as well as conferences convened since the International Day against Nuclear Tests was first celebrated. Follow the conversation with the hashtags: #EndNuclearTesting, #IDANT, #InternationalDayAgainstNuclearTests, #AgainstNuclearTests, #29August, #StepUp4Disarmament. #NuclearWeaponsFreeWorld.

EVENTS: On August 29th during the observance of the International Day Against Nuclear Tests 2025, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear test. We must never forget the legacy of over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests carried out over the last 80 years.

Frol 22 July to 2 August 2024 was held the second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in Geneva.

Statement of the United Nations Secretary-General on the International Day against Nuclear Test 2025; August 29th.

This important day arrives amid rising geopolitical tensions and growing nuclear risks — including the disturbing prospect of a return to nuclear testing.

In 2025, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear test. We must never forget the legacy of over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests carried out over the last 80 years.

The effects of these explosions have been horrific.

Nuclear tests drive displacement and contaminate lands and oceans. They sow the seeds of long-term health crises, including cancers and other chronic illnesses. And they deepen the cracks in the foundation of global trust, stability and peace.

We cannot accept this.

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty remains the only internationally agreed, legally binding instrument to end all nuclear tests. Its entry into force, long overdue, is more urgent than ever. I call on all countries to ratify it — immediately and without conditions.

My message to leaders is simple: stop playing with fire. Now is the time to silence the bombs before they speak again.

António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General.

DOCUMENTARY: Embrace a world free of nuclear weapons. is a film made in support of the International Day against Nuclear Tests (29 August); To learn more watch the Disarmament Films

ACTIONS

What should be done?

 Can the promise of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the possibilities envisioned at Reykjavik be brought to fruition? 

We believe that a major effort should be launched by the United States to produce a positive answer through concrete stages. First and foremost is intensive work with leaders of the countries in possession of nuclear weapons to turn the goal of a world without nuclear weapons into a joint enterprise. Such a joint enterprise, by involving changes in the disposition of the states possessing nuclear weapons, would lend additional weight to efforts already under way to avoid the emergence of a nuclear-armed North Korea and Iran.  The program on which agreements should be sought would constitute a series of agreed and urgent steps that would lay the groundwork for a world free of the nuclear threat.

 Steps would include:

 • Changing the Cold War posture of deployed nuclear weapons to increase warning time and thereby reduce the danger of an accidental or unauthorized use of a nuclear weapon. 

• Continuing to reduce substantially the size of nuclear forces in all states that possess them.

 • Eliminating short-range nuclear weapons designed to be forward-deployed. 

• Initiating a bipartisan process with the Senate, including understandings to increase confidence and provide for periodic review, to achieve ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, taking advantage of recent technical advances, and working to secure ratification by other key states.

 • Providing the highest possible standards of security for all stocks of weapons, weapons-usable plutonium, and highly enriched uranium everywhere in the world. 

• Getting control of the uranium enrichment process, combined with the guarantee that uranium for nuclear power reactors could be obtained at a reasonable price, first from the Nuclear Suppliers Group and then from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or other controlled international reserves. It will also be necessary to deal with proliferation issues presented by spent fuel from reactors producing electricity. 

• Halting the production of fissile material for weapons globally; phasing out the use of highly enriched uranium in civil commerce and removing weapons-usable uranium from research facilities around the world and rendering the materials safe.
• Redoubling our efforts to resolve regional confrontations and conflicts that give rise to new nuclear powers.


Achieving the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons will also require effective measures to impede or counter any nuclear-related conduct that is potentially threatening to the security of any state or peoples.


Reassertion of the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and practical measures toward achieving that goal would be, and would be perceived as, a bold initiative consistent with America's moral heritage. The effort could have a profoundly positive impact on the security of future generations. Without the bold vision, the actions will not be perceived as fair or urgent.

 Without the actions, the vision will not be perceived as realistic or possible. 

We endorse setting the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and working energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal, beginning with the measures outlined above.