The head of the department of the international relations FEDERAL STATE-FUNDED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION "DIPLOMATICHESKAYA ACADEMY MID RUSSIA", DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSRUSSIAAND MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS RUSSIA Konstantin Kosachev about destiny of contracts in the field of nuclear tests

Exactly 70 years ago, on August 12, 1953, on the range near Semipalatinsk Soviet Union for the first time carried out successful tests of a hydrogen bomb, in fact, changed race of arms in favor of the USSR. Nuclear war became simply impossible without fatal consequences for her initiator. Therefore already 10 years later, in August, 1963, the USSR, United States of America and United Kingdom signed in Moscow Contract about prohibition of tests of the nuclear weapon in the atmosphere, in a space and under water (the so-called Moscow contract) who these days celebrates 60-year anniversary. It was supposed that the following stage becomes...