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The '''Test Readiness Program''' was a [[United States]] Government program established in [[1963]] to maintain the necessary techonologies and infrastructure for the [[Nuclear testing|atmospheric testing]] of [[nuclear weapons]], should the treaty which prohibited such testing be abrogated.

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==Program ends==

By 1974, the world politics had significantly changed, and it was clear that the treaty, now over a decade old, would hold and there was little possibility of atomospheric testing would resume. Funding for the program was cut severely. The Air Force support dropped, and [[President Ford]] dropped the word "promptly" from the executive mandate. Thus, the Test Readiness Program came to an end in 1975.<ref name="sandia1"/>

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==References==

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[[Category:Cold War treaties]]

[[Category:Nuclear weapons policy]]

[[Category:History of the United States (1945–1964)]]