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Appendix E Threshold Test Ban Treaty
Pages 339-344

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From page 339...
... treaty Between the United States of America and the Onion of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitadon of Underground Nuc~ar Weapon Has
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From page 340...
... Article II 1. -For the purpose of providing assurance of compliance with the provisions of this Treaty, each Party shall use national technical means of verification at its disposal in a manner consistent with the generally recognized principles of international law.
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... DONE at Moscow on July3, 1974, in duplicate, in the English and Russian languages, both texts being equally authentic. For the United States of America: RICHARD NIXON, The President of the United States of America For the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: L
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... In this connection the yield of such explosionsforcalibration purposesshould tee es near es possible to the limit defined in Article I of the Treaty and not less than one-tenth of that limit. In the case of testing areas where data are not available on two tests for calibration purposes, the data pertaining to one such test shall be exchanged, if available, and the data pertaining to the second test shall be exchanged as soon as possible after the second test having a yield in the above-mentioned range.
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... NIXON, The President of the United States of America For the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: L BREZHNEV, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
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