In 1996, China pledged to refrain from further assistance to Pakistan's unsafeguarded nuclear facilities, adopted a nucleartestingmoratorium, signed the comprehensive nuclear test ban and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The hardiest perennial in the anti-testing campaign and a prominent feature of the current effort to induce President Clinton to reject a resumption of nucleartesting is the argument that unless the United States observes a moratorium on nucleartesting, the former Soviet Union will resume its own test program and come, thereby, to field a more threatening offensive nuclear force.