None of us can fully comprehend what the permanent cessation of nuclear testing means.
Consider what would occur if the United States halted nuclear testing for 30 years.
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Ike launched a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing before negotiations on a test-ban treaty.
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W. Bush signed the nuclear testing moratorium enacted by Congress, which remains in place to this day.
Agreements are imminent on strategic arms, chemical weapons, conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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Unfortunately, reneging on previous commitments is nothing new to opponents of nuclear testing.
He continued his war with the French over nuclear testing, again visiting Mururoa.
Is a cessation of American nuclear testing going to induce Saddam to give up his pursuit of the bomb?
Since 1992, there has been no underground nuclear testing in the United States and no modernization of the arsenal.
The difference between the strategic and radical schools of arms control was illustrated by their respective attitudes toward nuclear testing.
It grew out of a committee protesting against American nuclear testing in the Aleutian islands, whose ship was called Greenpeace.
Earlier this year, Russia, France, Britain and the U.S. promised to sign a treaty banning nuclear testing sometime next year.
Successive U.S. presidents, including Jimmy Carter, have declined to complete a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing for this reason, among others.
The legislation also expressly provided for a resumption of U.S. nuclear testing in the event that other nuclear powers conducted tests.
The Europeans also broke from the group's normal mode by issuing a dissenting memorandum on ARF's official condemnation of nuclear testing.
It would be an admission that all those expensive computers, expensive non-nuclear testing machines, and all that expensive brainpower fell short.
In particular, President Ronald Reagan appreciated the necessity of continuing underground nuclear testing as long as the United States required a deterrent.
In other meetings, ministers condemned the resumption of nuclear testing, commended progress in the Arab-Israeli peace process and examined the question of nuclear-arms proliferation.
The most dominating "fact of life" in the U.S. nuclear weapons world today is the continued existence of a moratorium on underground nuclear testing.
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The other treaty is the comprehensive ban on nuclear testing.
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Its early campaigns against nuclear testing and whaling, and for global ecological preservation, won it wide support in British Columbia and did much to raise environmental awareness there.
Accordingly, no new nuclear testing limitations agreements should be undertaken.
Under the moratorium, our laboratories have maintained our arsenal through the Stockpile Stewardship Program without underground nuclear testing, using techniques that are as successful as they are cutting edge.
In 1992, the United States adopted a moratorium on nuclear testing, thus precluding the most rigorous and reliable means of establishing the susceptibility of electronic systems to electromagnetic effects.
President Clinton would be well-advised to learn from the experience of his Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter, who came to office determined to achieve a comprehensive, permanent ban on nuclear testing.
Tomorrow, Clinton Administration cabinet officers are scheduled to meet to consider a draft of Presidential Review Document-19 (PRD-19), a decision memorandum intended to respond to congressional limitations on nuclear testing.
Yet, President Obama wants to foreclose even the replacement of your obsolescing weapons with one that promises to provide a safe and reliable deterrent in the absence of nuclear testing.
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For most of the nuclear era, successive U.S. administrations of both political parties regarded periodic nuclear testing as essential to the maintenance of a safe, reliable and effective nuclear deterrent.
In fact, as former assistant secretary of defense Frank Gaffney points out, the North Korean nuclear program reached its frantic climactic stage precisely during the current American moratorium on nuclear testing.
In 1996, China pledged to refrain from further assistance to Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear facilities, adopted a nuclear testing moratorium, signed the comprehensive nuclear test ban and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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