The second group was born later, in the '60s, after the test ban treaty.
An astounding array of former top security policy practitioners opposes this Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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In the case of the test ban treaty, the administration has demonstrated little of either.
For some anti-testers, of course, that is the whole point of a test ban.
There is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which Mr Vajpayee was moving towards signing.
After the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty, the United States conducted all such tests underground.
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.
India's next government could, however, do something to allay fears by swiftly signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
In 1998, India and Pakistan tested their nuclear weapons and, later, the Senate rejected the Test Ban Treaty.
The argument for the test ban is that it will prevent nuclear proliferation.
But in 1963 the Limited Test Ban Treaty prohibited any nuclear explosion that sent radioactivity over a nation's borders.
This is because a test ban raised some difficult technical challenges that needed to be surmounted before Senate approval.
For example, the Comprehensive Test Ban will not prevent states determined to acquire nuclear weapons from simply buying them.
And, like New Delhi, Islamabad showed no readiness to bend to U.S. pressure and sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came out in favor of reviving the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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Law of the Sea Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and others.
In 1963, President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
G8 countries, which have said India must sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, will now want Pakistan to sign as well.
If the test ban is relaxed, as looks likely, Schumacher will be doing as much of it as he can at Mercedes.
But it is unclear how a test ban would curb nuclear proliferation.
We led in concluding the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which will bring to life a decades-old dream of ending nuclear weapons testing.
This accord, known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), is such a priority for the anti-nuclear crowd for a simple reason.
Far from shoring up the NPT regime, moreover, creating a new comprehensive test ban arms control agenda might well serve to undermine it.
Concerns about the Clinton policies prompted a majority of the U.S. Senate to reject their cornerstone: the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Analysts will try to gain a better understanding of Bush's position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which he is said to oppose.
For these descendants of the old Ban the Bomb and Nuclear Freeze movements, a test ban is not an end but a means.
Those elevated levels of radiocarbon were tracked carefully, and they began to drop off quickly after a test ban treaty was signed in 1963.
Mr. Obama also said, on behalf of the U.S., that "We will move forward with the ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty" (CTBT).
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Like some earlier accords, such as the 1972 American-Soviet agreement curbing antimissile defenses, the test ban treaty represents an anachronistic approach to arms control.
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