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  JFK Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 7/26/63
Negotiations were concluded in Moscow on a treaty to ban all nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water.
Continued unrestricted testing by the nuclear powers, joined in time by other nations which may be less adept in limiting pollution, will increasingly contaminate the air that all of us must breathe.
It is true that the Soviets have tested nuclear weapons of a yield higher than that which we thought to be necessary, but the hundred megaton bomb of which they spoke a years ago does not and will not change the balance of strategic power.
www.ratical.org /co-globalize/JFK072663.html   (3030 words)

  
 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
India and Pakistan Nuclear Tests and the Test Ban Treaty Material on the impact of Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty University of Arizona seismological data and investigations related to detection of nuclear explosions verification of treaty compliance.
The Partial Test Ban Treaty Text of the 1963 treaty signed by the US, the UK, and the USSR banning atmospheric, oceanic, and extraterrestrial testing of nuclear weapons.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treaty.html   (415 words)

  
 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Indicators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When an underground nuclear explosion occurs, the shock wave produced by the blast vaporizes and melts the rock in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear detonation.
Additionally, roads leading to a nuclear test site may generally be of better quality than the surrounding commercial roads, in order to facilitate the safe transport of nuclear materials.
There are other detectable indicators of nuclear testing activity that, when found in conjunction with previously mentioned indicators, may cause further scrutiny.
dtirp.dtra.mil /products/NTBT/603p.htm   (2261 words)

  
 Nuclear Test Ban Debate and Poll
Ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) failed in the Senate by a vote of 48 to 51 with one abstention.
Test ban opponents suggest that this small risk means we should opt out of the treaty now.
While it is difficult to conceive of future security threats likely to require nuclear testing as the most appropriate response, if such a serious threat did emerge the United States could withdraw from the treaty.
www.youdebate.com /DEBATES/nuclear_test_ban.HTM   (906 words)

  
 Nuclear Test Watch
But clearly, one tactic that advocates hope to employ in their press for resumption of tests is the idea that even Cannon, the son of a man who died of cancer that might be linked to test-related radiation, sees that the security needs of sustaining our nuclear arsenal requires the environmental dangers of testing.
While Russia openly tests ballistic missiles it claims are capable of dodging any and all missile defense interceptors, it’s not difficult to cast the shadow that it plans to test nuclear weapons.
Instead, it is evident that multiple plans for nuclear testing are being produced within the labs, and these will filter their way up the chain of command until President Bush in late 2006 or early 2007 can insist that there’s really no other way for America to guarantee the credibility of its deterrent.
nucleartestwatch.blogspot.com   (4849 words)

  
 Senate Democrats move to postpone test ban vote - October 8, 1999
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Facing an uphill fight for ratification, the nuclear test ban treaty favored by President Bill Clinton was being debated in the Senate on Friday, even as Democrats and Republicans search for ways to put off next week's scheduled vote.
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty would extend the present international ban on nuclear tests in the atmosphere to underground testing as well, resulting in a total ban on all nuclear explosions, no matter how small.
As the Senate considers ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty, a grass-roots lobbying campaign is being waged by both supporters and opponents.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/08/test.ban.treaty   (1049 words)

  
 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will strengthen our national security by constraining the development of more advanced and more destructive nuclear weapons, and by limited the possibilities for more countries to acquire nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, the Test Ban Treaty is now imperiled by the refusal of some senators even to consider it.
Q -- test ban, there have been some that say that the Cox report shows that you should actually be developing weapons to stay ahead of proliferators.
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 Clinton hopes for nuclear test ban votes
More than four decades later, winning ratification of a treaty to ban nuclear testing – a top Clinton administration priority – is still a hard sell.
Despite repeated efforts by the big nuclear powers to limit the nuclear arms race – set in motion by the U.S. bombing of Japan in World War II – the issue hasn't been in the forefront of public attention during most of the 41 years since Eisenhower's proposal.
A poll conducted in July for the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, a pro-test ban advocacy group, suggested that 82 percent of the American public supported such a treaty.
www.th-record.com /1999/10/05/testbant.htm   (553 words)

  
 Nuclear test ban showdown looms in Washington - October 8, 1999
But a leading critic of the test ban, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina), said President Clinton must withdraw the treaty from consideration until after next year's presidential election if he wants next Tuesday's scheduled vote called off.
"I hope the senators who now oppose the CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) or who are undecided will think very carefully about what the consequences would be if the treaty were not approved," she said.
Testing is not needed to make sure U.S. nuclear weapons would work, Richardson said.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/08/test.ban.treaty.01/index.html   (1322 words)

  
 Libya Ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Libya has ratified the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to show it is serious about giving up its weapons of mass destruction.
The Vienna-based organization dealing with the nuclear test ban treaty has confirmed that Libya ratified the pact last week.
But tests for developing these weapons would be illegal under the terms of the test ban treaty.
www.voanews.com /article.cfm?objectID=152EB11C-B454-43BA-92F35813FE26BE66   (207 words)

  
 NUCLEAR TEST BAN-KENNEDY
It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.
Both countries were continuing to test nuclear weapons and very few people expected President Kennedy - at a time of great tension between Moscow and Washington -- to deliver a speech that focused on - peace.
Sorensen says given that Moscow and Washington came on the verge of nuclear war just eight months before the speech was given, the limited nuclear test ban treaty can only be seen as a great success.
www.fas.org /nuke/control/ctbt/news/991026-ctbt.htm   (1029 words)

  
 The Making of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1958-1963
Among the would-be nuclear powers that concerned the Kennedy administration, China's nuclear ambitions were the source of great apprehension and a central consideration in Kennedy's drive for a test ban.
Radiation Laboratory, was a prominent critic of the test ban movement; he supported continued testing and, of course, argued that the possibility of clandestine underground testing made a comprehensive agreement unworkable.
The source believed that the speech improved prospects for a test ban, although he (or she) was too confident in believing that the problem of inspections could be easily resolved.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB94/index2.htm   (12366 words)

  
 NUCLEAR TEST- BAN DELEGATES LOCKED INTO UNITED NATIONS :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stressing the urgency of concluding the nuclear test-ban treaty, Greenpeace began the protest after diplomats arrived to discuss the ban and said it would not let them leave until they had reached agreement on a treaty prohibiting all nuclear tests.
The Greenpeace activists, from a half-dozen countries, have chained themselves in a human barricade across the gates of the 'Palais de Nations' in Geneva, where the negotiations of the Comprehensiv e Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) are being held.
According to Greenpeace, political issues not fundamental to the effectiveness of a nuclear test-ban -- related to the treaty's verification and entry-into-force in particular -- have been the main barrier to finally concluding the talks.
archive.greenpeace.org /comms/nukes/ctbt/aug06.html   (378 words)

  
 nuclear test-ban treaty on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty needed to help prevent nuclear war.
Message to the Senate transmitting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and documentation.
CTBT: forecasting the future: the nuclear test ban treaty can't enter into force until eleven "holdout" nations both sign and ratify it--including the United States.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-nucltest.asp   (425 words)

  
 Bush opposes ratifying nuclear test ban treaty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bush was terse in his answers about the test ban, and did not elaborate on his thinking.
The Senate refused to ratify the test ban on a 48-51 vote earlier this week.
The drive for spending reform is led by GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona, one of Bush's rivals for the Republican nomination.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/bush16.shtml   (1030 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Libya ratifies nuclear test ban treaty
Libya's nuclear program was far from producing a weapon and the treaty is 12 nations short of the 44 ratifications needed for it to enter into force.
The Vienna-based agency – known as the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization – said that in ratifying the pact earlier this month, Libya agreed to host a monitoring station at Misratah.
It said then it would sign the test ban treaty and become a party to the convention prohibiting chemical weapons.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040114-1453-libya-nuclear.html   (851 words)

  
 RP Ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Since the first nuclear weapon test was conducted in July 1945, over 2,000 nuclear weapon test explosions have been conducted by nuclear weapon-states, the most recent of which were those of India and Pakistan in 1998.
This is in accord with the Philippines’ constitutional policy of freedom from nuclear weapons in its territory, and its long held stance as a proponent of nuclear disarmament, including, in particular the cessation of nuclear testing.
Consistent with its stance against nuclear weapons and as a strong manifestation of its commitment to the CTBT, the Philippines has joined a network of states parties having monitoring stations of underground nuclear explosions.
www.philcongenla.org /content.asp?FileName=\press\18-01-01.ini   (401 words)

  
 CHINA'S TEST UNDERMINES NUCLEAR TEST BAN TALKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Greenpeace condemned today's 20-80 kiloton Chinese nuclear weapons test and called on world leaders to protest the action and demand that China show the utmost restraint while negotiating a Comprehensive nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
"This nuclear test is deplorable, particularly as it occurs at such a sensitive time in the test ban negotiation," said Damon Moglen, a Greenpeace International spokesman.
News of the test was broken by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation in Canberra, Australia.
archive.greenpeace.org /comms/nukes/ctbt/jun08.html   (359 words)

  
 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
With this rejection, we’ve invited a world where there are a dozen of nuclear capable nations instead of a world where nuclear weapons are downsized and, eventually, eliminated.
The fact is, that for the Chinese to develop the nuclear weapon technology to threaten the U.S. with a first strike, decades of intense testing would be necessary.
He hasn’t tested nuclear weapons since his election in 1992 and he has pledged to the world not to test such weapons.
www.nobodyaskedme.com /monologues/102399mono.htm   (871 words)

  
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 Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty----(Guru)
More than four decades later, winning ratification of a treaty to ban nuclear testing _ a top Clinton administration priority _ is still a hard sell.
Despite repeated efforts by the big nuclear powers to limit the nuclear arms race _ set in motion by the U.S. bombing of Japan in World War II _ the issue hasn't been in the forefront of public attention during most of the 41 years since Eisenhower's proposal.
Such a ban could raise doubts 10 or 15 years from now about the condition of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, perhaps tempting a dictator or terrorist to challenge the United States, suggested Senate Armed Services Chairman John Warner, R-Va. ``There can be no doubt about the credibility of that stockpile,'' Warner said Monday.
www.wave-guide.org /archives/emf-l/Oct1999/Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty----(Guru).html   (930 words)

  
 Nuclear Test Ban Agreed
The world's nations today agreed to a treaty banning nuclear tests.
The nuclear weapon states have bowed to significant international pressure, and their unwillingness to stop testing is demonstrated in the Treaty s provisions for taking effect.
Ratification by the nuclear weapon states is vital to demonstrate the sincerity of their support for this Treaty," said Stephen Young, Senior Analyst at BASIC.
www.basicint.org /pubs/Press/1996sept-ban_agreed.htm   (265 words)

  
 US BOYCOTT NUCLEAR TEST BAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They have decided to boycott the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Conference (CTBT) which will be held in Vienna (Austria) from 3rd to 5th September.
These atomic tests have caused enormous human suffering in the form of cancers, birth defects and social upheaval, and environmental destruction without precedent.
These inspections draw attention to the fact that the US is maintaining their own largely secret stockpiles of nuclear weapons, in breach of their obligations under the non-proliferation treaty, while they use weapons inspections as the justification for going to war against Iraq.
nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz /boycott.htm   (737 words)

  
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 CNN - U.N. endorses nuclear test ban treaty - September 10, 1996
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United Nations General Assembly endorsed a landmark ban on all nuclear test blasts Tuesday, but pivotal opposition could block it from being technically enforceable.
The five declared nuclear powers -- the United States, Russia, France, Britain and China -- supported the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The treaty must be signed and ratified by the 44 nations known to have nuclear reactors, including India and Pakistan, to have the force of law.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9609/10/un.nuke   (373 words)

  
 Clinton continues to push for nuclear test ban treaty - October 9, 1999
Clinton continues to push for nuclear test ban treaty
CHICAGO (AP) -- President Clinton said a landmark test ban treaty is America's best chance at nuclear security for the future.
Supporters concede they cannot come close to the 67 votes, a two-thirds majority, needed for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/09/clinton.radio/index.html   (319 words)

  
 The "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water
SEEKING to achieve the discontinuance of all test explosions of nuclear weapons for all time, determined to continue negotiations to this end, and desiring to put an end to the contamination of man's environment by radioactive substances,
It is understood in this connection that the provisions of this subparagraph are without prejudice to the conclusion of a treaty resulting in the permanent banning of all nuclear test explosions, including all such explosions underground, the conclusion of which, as the Parties have stated in the Preamble to this Treaty, they seek to achieve.
www.iasl.mcgill.ca /spacelaw/nuclear.html   (884 words)

  
 CBS News | Japan Appeals For Nuclear Test Ban | September 3, 2003 13:39:41
The United States led the negotiations to convert a moratorium on testing into a permanent treaty in 1996, but the U.S. Senate rejected the treaty two years later, thwarting arms control advocates and the administration of former President Clinton.
As one of 44 countries with nuclear power or research facilities listed in an annex to the treaty, the Americans must ratify the document or it won't go into effect.
The document is considered a critical element in efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, since a ban on testing would make developing such arms almost impossible.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/09/03/world/main571402.shtml   (610 words)

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