1996	November 26 -The last of the nuclear warheads stationed in Belarus were 
	finally removed to Russia. This completes the planned denuclearization of 
	the smaller successor states to the Soviet Union, leaving Russia as the sole 
	inheritor of the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. 

1997	July 2 - U.S. begins a round of underground nuclear related tests at the 
	Nevada Test Site. 
	September 18 - U.S. conducts a second underground explosive test on
	plutonium. 
1998	February 24 - France's National Assembly votes unanimously to ratify the 
	CTBT. 
	May 11 - India tests three nuclear devices. 
	May 13 - India tests two more nuclear devices. 
	May 28 - Pakistan tests 5 nuclear devices. 
	May 30 - Pakistan conducts another nuclear test.