Editing Nuclear weapons testing (section)

==Criticism==
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Nuclear arms tests have been criticized for its [[arms race]]<ref name="l904">{{cite web | last=Kinsella | first=William | title=The nuclear arms race's legacy: Contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of secrecy • Missouri Independent | website=Missouri Independent | date=2023-08-04 | url=https://missouriindependent.com/2023/08/04/the-nuclear-arms-races-legacy-contamination-staggering-cleanup-costs-and-a-culture-of-secrecy/ | access-date=2025-01-07}}</ref> and its fallout,<ref name="c705">{{cite journal | last=Prăvălie | first=Remus | title=Nuclear Weapons Tests and Environmental Consequences: A Global Perspective | journal=Ambio | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=43 | issue=6 | date=2014-02-22 | issn=0044-7447 | doi=10.1007/s13280-014-0491-1 | doi-access=free | pages=729–744 | pmid=24563393 | pmc=4165831 | bibcode=2014Ambio..43..729P }}</ref><ref name="s018">{{cite web | last=Seale | first=Jack | title=Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story review – how the UK's atomic testing programme devastated lives | website=the Guardian | date=2024-11-20 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/20/britain-nuclear-bomb-scandal-our-story-review | access-date=2025-01-07}}</ref><ref name="u678">{{cite web | title=Banning nuclear explosions protects the environment | website=CTBTO | url=https://www.ctbto.org/news-and-events/news/banning-nuclear-explosions-protects-environment | access-date=2025-01-07}}</ref> with a potentially global fallout.

Nuclear weapons tests have been criticized by [[anti-nuclear movement|anti-nuclear activists]] as nuclear imperialism, colonialism,<ref name="u485">{{cite journal | last1=Hennaoui | first1=Leila | last2=Nurzhan | first2=Marzhan | title=Dealing with a Nuclear Past: Revisiting the Cases of Algeria and Kazakhstan through a Decolonial Lens | journal=The International Spectator | volume=58 | issue=4 | date=2023-10-02 | issn=0393-2729 | doi=10.1080/03932729.2023.2234817 | doi-access=free | pages=91–109 }}</ref>  [[ecocide]], [[environmental racism]] and [[nuclear genocide]].<ref name="j999">{{cite web | last=Skinner | first=Rob | title='Against Nuclear Imperialism': peace, race and anti-colonialism in the early 1960s | website=University of Bristol | date=2021-09-30 | url=https://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/public-engagement/blackhistory/snapshots2021/nuclear/ | access-date=2025-01-03}}</ref><ref name="b190">{{cite web | last=Hsu | first=Hsuan L. | title=Nuclear colonialism | website=Environment & Society Portal | date=2014-05-21 | url=https://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/risk-and-militarization/nuclear-colonialism | access-date=2025-01-03}}</ref><ref name="w082">{{cite journal | last=Maguire | first=Richard | title=From the Guest Editor: The nuclear weapon and genocide: The beginning of a discussion | journal=Journal of Genocide Research | volume=9 | issue=3 | date=2007 | issn=1462-3528 | doi=10.1080/14623520701528866 | doi-access=free | pages=353–360 }}</ref>

The movement gained particularly in the 1960s and in the 1980s again.

The international day "End Nuclear Tests Day" raises critical awareness annually.<ref name="t465">{{cite web | last=Nations | first=United | title=End Nuclear Tests Day | publisher=United Nations | date=1945-07-16 | url=https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-nuclear-tests-day/history | access-date=2025-01-08}}</ref>