to salvage two pairs of such missiles for posterity. One pair in a museum in each super-Power capital for future generations to examine and to ponder over. These missiles have finally come to the right place and been put to the right use. As post-modern sculptures or museum artefacts, illustrating human madness . Progress in disarmament was dramatic in the late 1980s. But in the 1990s we have only had to wait five months for the super-Powers to agree in principle on the most spectacular disarmament deal ever. The Washington summit 10 days ago endorsed the beginning of significant strategic nuclear disarmament. Considerable cuts in nuclear weapon arsenals by the two major Powers are welcomed by all States. It should be recalled, moreover, that the two super-Powers had previously agreed that, ultimately, their bilateral negotiations "should lead to the complete elimination of nuclear arms everywhere". Nuclear test explosions are carried out for the progressive refinement of nuclear weapons. And nuclear testing continues. Modernization is the main driving force from behind these tests. But the international community can never accept that quanitative reductions may be offset by qualitative improvements. CD/PV.555 6 (Mrs. Theorin. Sweden ) A comprehensive nuclear test ban would still be the single most effective measure to bring the nuclear arms race to a halt. A CTB would effectively promote quantitative reductions and would hamper qualitative improvements and the horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons. The test-ban issue is particularly topical this year in view of the fourth review conference of the non-proliferation Treaty in August-September. Furthermore, the amendment conference of the partial test-ban Treaty will be convened in January 1991. These developments must generate the additional political stimulus required to permit a breakthrough, at long last, on the comprehensive nuclear test-ban issue in the Conference on Disarmament. In the partial test-ban Treaty, nearly 27 years ago, the nuclear-weapon 
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