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Kazakhstan for a Nuclear Weapons-Free WOrld:
Kazakhstan had a long record of working to make the world a safer place, free of nuclear weapons. In 1991, the newly independent Kazakhstan inherited from the Soviet Union the fourth largest nuclear weapon arsenal in the world. President Nazarbayev renounced nuclear weapons and in fewer than four years, Kazakhstan was nuclear weapons-free. Kazakhstan is an example of a country gaining security by giving up nuclear weapons.
1989: Kazakhstan was home to one of the Soviet Union's first anti-nuclear movements, Nevada Semipalatinsk. In 1989, this movement actively campaigned for the closing of the Semipalatinsk test site, one of the most-used nuclear testing sites in the world.
1992: Kazakhstan signed the Gabon Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and declared itself a non-nuclear weapons state.
1993: Kazakhstan ratified the Nonproliferation Treaty and joined the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program.
1994: Under the Budapest Memorandum, Kazakhstan obtained security assurances from nuclear powers Russia, US, UK, and later from France and China.
1995: Keeping with their promise, Kazakhstan becomes rid of all nuclear weapons inherited from the Soviet Union.
2000: The testing infrastructure in Semipalatinsk is completely destroyed.
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