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Bruce Cockburn: 50 years of music, spirituality and social justice | SaltWire - Russia's parliament starts voting on Tuesday on withdrawing Moscow's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Here is a look at some of the questions that raises.The CTBT is a 1996 treaty that bans"any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion" anywhere in the world.The treaty's preamble cites the goal of reducing and ultimately eliminating nuclear weapons.

The CTBT is"a remarkably effective treaty, even though it hasn't come into force", said Matthew Harries, director of proliferation and nuclear policy at the RUSI think-tank in London.

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