Further, the existence of nuclear weapons is asserted to be detrimental to the maintenance of democracy and it may also retard its progressive development as a rule of customary international law. Accordingly, in this Post-Cold War era, the challenge to lawyers and legal scholars must be to continuously clarify and advance the common interest of the ever-changing international community in nuclear disarmament; to elaborate the necessary procedures and process that will lead to the normative end of nuclear weapons tests and eventually nuclear weapons themselves.