An astounding array of former top security policy practitioners opposes this Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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There is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which Mr Vajpayee was moving towards signing.
India's next government could, however, do something to allay fears by swiftly signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
For example, the Comprehensive Test Ban will not prevent states determined to acquire nuclear weapons from simply buying them.
And, like New Delhi, Islamabad showed no readiness to bend to U.S. pressure and sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Law of the Sea Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and others.
G8 countries, which have said India must sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, will now want Pakistan to sign as well.
We led in concluding the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which will bring to life a decades-old dream of ending nuclear weapons testing.
This accord, known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), is such a priority for the anti-nuclear crowd for a simple reason.
Far from shoring up the NPT regime, moreover, creating a new comprehensive test ban arms control agenda might well serve to undermine it.
Analysts will try to gain a better understanding of Bush's position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which he is said to oppose.
Mr. Obama also said, on behalf of the U.S., that "We will move forward with the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty" (CTBT).
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Clinton will probably press the Indians to scale down their nuclear ambitions and to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (even though the U.S. hasn't).
The National Academy of Sciences will release a study that is expected to deem the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) verifiable and further underground testing unnecessary.
The Clinton administration has announced its intention to launch a campaign to resuscitate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) rejected last October by a majority of the Senate.
Washington has been pushing to get both countries to freeze their respective nuclear programs and sign two treaties: the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
In a wide-ranging speech, she stated that she believed that the US would sign up to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which forbids the testing of nuclear weapons.
But there are two serious questions that worry genuine doubters: can America's nuclear weapons be kept safe and effective without explosive tests, and can the promise of a comprehensive test ban be comprehensively verified?
He declared an indefinite nuclear test moratorium, signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, and suppressed research and development that would do anything more than keep the U.S. nuclear stockpile on life support.
To be sure, such a posture is the result of more than just Mr. Clinton's decision not to conduct nuclear tests through September 1994, and thereafter if a Comprehensive Test Ban can be negotiated.
President Clinton, whose cynicism never loses its power to astonish, put on a long face and, with that tone of sincerity that betokens his tendentiousness, lamented that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty had become tangled in politics.
The moratorium was one of a series of unilateral disarmament actions taken at that time, which included the 1993-94 legislation prohibiting design of low-yield nuclear weapons and the 1995-96 agreement on a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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But unlike the current version of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the ban was confined to tests above a specific threshold that was verifiable and allowed a limited number of proof-tests of existing stockpiles to determine their reliability.
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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In addition, Mr. Obama insists that the United States must become a party to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty - an accord a majority of the U.S. Senate rejected ten years ago on the grounds that it was unverifiable and inconsistent with the nation's need to maintain a safe, reliable and therefore credible nuclear deterrent.
Importantly, when such a permanent prohibition on testing - in the form of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) - was submitted to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent in 1999, the same considerations that underpinned President Reagan's position on testing were among those that caused a majority of Senators to reject the CTBT.
The US imposed economic and military sanctions on India (and Pakistan) when it carried out its nuclear test in May 1998, and has since pressed both countries to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - but to no avail.
First, ending the stalemates on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Concerns about the Clinton policies prompted a majority of the U.S. Senate to reject their cornerstone: the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Yet the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, concluded in 1996 and since signed by more than 150 states (including all five official nuclear powers), has still not come into force.
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