11.   ...the banning of nuclear tests.

12.   The use of Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls for the conducting of French nuclear tests continued to attract fierce criticism.

13.   Greenpeace claim to have detected radioactive caesium leaking from the French nuclear test site on Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific.

14.   Karimov claims to have discovered a direct correlation between nuclear tests conducted at the Soviet testing site of Semipalatinsk over the years and earthquakes throughout the former Soviet Union.

15.   He also attributes other abnormal natural phenomena, such as the mass beaching of whales on the Australian coast earlier this year, to the effects of nuclear tests.

16.   Greenpeace began with a protest voyage into a nuclear test zone.

17.   American officials who traveled to India in the months before the nuclear tests did not agree that this was the message that they conveyed.

18.   American and Indian officials held a round of talks Monday to ease the standoff that developed after India conducted underground nuclear tests in May.

19.   Among the more important steps was an declaration by the eight nations that a total ban on nuclear tests should be negotiated by September.

20.   An international ban on all nuclear tests has been a goal of American presidents dating back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.