Also following the 2004 tsunami, UNESCO-IOC and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) agreed to explore the potential of using data from the International Monitoring System (IMS) for tsunami warning purposes.
More explicit than "Daisy, " in naming Barry Goldwater as a terrifying figure who had voted against the nuclear-test-ban treaty, "Ice Cream" (like that other ad) combines images of angelic little girls one pulling petals off a flower, the other licking an ice-cream cone while a voiceover warns that "the stakes are too high" to vote for anyone but President Lyndon Johnson.
We will strive for the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
It's a doozy for the Chinese, who may have pocketed U.S. secrets just before they signed the nuclear test-ban treaty in 1996.
But most of the time he enjoys outfoxing the White House, as he did last year when he got the Senate to reject the nuclear test-ban treaty.
The moratorium was one of a series of unilateral disarmament actions taken at that time, which included the 1993-94 legislation prohibiting design of low-yield nuclear weapons and the 1995-96 agreement on a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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The US imposed economic and military sanctions on India (and Pakistan) when it carried out its nuclear test in May 1998, and has since pressed both countries to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - but to no avail.
First, ending the stalemates on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Washington has been pushing to get both countries to freeze their respective nuclear programs and sign two treaties: the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.
Ike launched a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing before negotiations on a test-ban treaty.
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Mr Clinton had hoped to persuade India and Pakistan, two antagonistic nuclear neighbours, to sign the test-ban treaty.
As the Center for Security Policy has documented, 2 there is no reason to believe that any nation determined to acquire atomic or nuclear weapons capabilities -- and there are many -- will actually be precluded from doing so because of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Hence India refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and has ruled out signing a Comprehensive Test Ban, unless all other nuclear powers do.
NPT, nor the test-ban treaty arguing that the five nuclear powers must agree to give up their weapons first.
Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963.
In 1996, President Clinton decided to agree to a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty that entailed a permanent, zero-yield prohibition on all nuclear tests.
This accord, known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), is such a priority for the anti-nuclear crowd for a simple reason.
We led in concluding the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which will bring to life a decades-old dream of ending nuclear weapons testing.
The Soviet empire fell not because radicals like Obama called for the US to destroy its nuclear arsenal, it fell because president Ronald Reagan ignored them and vastly expanded the US's nuclear arsenal while deploying short-range nuclear warheads in Europe and launching the US's missile defense program while renouncing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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