In an important analysis published recently by the Center for Security Policy, Vice Admiral Robert Monroe USN (Ret.), a former director of the Defense Nuclear Agency, argues persuasively that if we are to have any hope of preventing proliferation in the future, the United States must maintain a credible nuclear deterrent - and undertake the associated testing, developmental and industrial actions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The terror next time

One such challenge was whether the United States, with a military strategy based on credible nuclear deterrence, could maintain a highly reliable stockpile of nuclear weapons indefinitely without testing.

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