First, ending the stalemates on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
He also negotiated a limited nuclear test ban treaty that inhibited the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came out in favor of reviving the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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In 1963, President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
Concerns about the Clinton policies prompted a majority of the U.S. Senate to reject their cornerstone: the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Many prominent physicists of Dyson's day were convinced that it could work, but the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 outlawed the testing that the project would have required.
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.
What can reopen that portal is Pakistan's signing of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty championed by the U.S. But doing so without India, which is not hit as hard by the sanctions, will be politically damaging to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Two big-footed Georgians came to town this week to announce their intention of getting the country's attention on the subject of arms control, which hasn't been seriously discussed since the Senate voted down the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty over a year ago.
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We will strive for the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
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.
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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But in 1963 the Limited Test Ban Treaty prohibited any nuclear explosion that sent radioactivity over a nation's borders.
Clinton will probably press the Indians to scale down their nuclear ambitions and to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (even though the U.S. hasn't).
He declared an indefinite nuclear test moratorium, signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, and suppressed research and development that would do anything more than keep the U.S. nuclear stockpile on life support.
At the summit, the United States will sign accords on enhanced verification procedures sought by the Reagan Administration for the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty of the 1970s as prerequisites to ratification by the U.S. Congress.
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In 1998, India and Pakistan tested their nuclear weapons and, later, the Senate rejected the Test Ban Treaty.
In a wide-ranging speech, she stated that she believed that the US would sign up to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which forbids the testing of nuclear weapons.
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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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.
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.
They argued, moreover, that a zero-yield, permanent nuclear test ban is manifestly not in the United States' national interest and noted that, given international support for such a treaty, needed changes to either of those key provisions would be unlikely to be accepted by other parties.
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