Far from shoring up the NPT regime, moreover, creating a new comprehensive test ban arms control agenda might well serve to undermine it.

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True, the "strategic" arms controllers negotiated an underground test ban.

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Like some earlier accords, such as the 1972 American-Soviet agreement curbing antimissile defenses, the test ban treaty represents an anachronistic approach to arms control.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | Fumble on the Test Ban Treaty By Richard Burt The Washington Post, 18 October 1999

Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963.

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Two big-footed Georgians came to town this week to announce their intention of getting the country's attention on the subject of arms control, which hasn't been seriously discussed since the Senate voted down the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty over a year ago.

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