When the BBC contacted CTB to see if it could open up an account there, the bank did not respond, though it did say it had moved its headquarters from Thurso to Dumbarton, on the west coast of Scotland.
In particular, proponents of a CTB routinely cite the prospect that developing nations will refuse to extend the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) when it comes up for review in 1995 unless the United States and other nuclear weapon states have agreed to suspend testing permanently.