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- Putin has signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CBDT).
- Russia said that the main aim of the bill is to restore parity with the United States, which has never ratified the CBDT.
- Both houses of the Russian parliament voted to revoke the ratification of the bill.
- Russia said that this move to withdraw its ratification does not mean that it will resume testing.
- The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions.
- The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1996 but never fully implemented.
- USA, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran and Egypt have never ratified this treaty.
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