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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Strangely, the administration ignored this experience in the case of the test ban treaty.
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.
There is nothing in the test ban treaty that enhances their incentive to stop Iran.
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After the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty, the United States conducted all such tests underground.
That, and not a flawed, irrelevant test ban treaty, is what the administration should focus on.
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First, ending the stalemates on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The National Ignition Facility was conceived in response to a nuclear-weapon test ban signed by George H.
Obviously, there is an urgent need for adult supervision with respect to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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With some honorable exceptions, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was worth more to the Democrats dead than alive.
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.
In 1992, legislation was adopted by the then-Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by President Bush endorsing a Comprehensive Test Ban.
Another Unverifiable Treaty: Violations of the Clinton Comprehensive Test Ban cannot be detected or proven with high confidence .
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.
The Center believes that these answers support -- indeed, require -- rejection of the present Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty would effectively cripple our nuclear deterrent capability by prohibiting any explosive nuclear testing.
For example, the Comprehensive Test Ban will not prevent states determined to acquire nuclear weapons from simply buying them.
Now, President Obama wants us to make this arrangement permanent by ratifying the unverifiable Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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It has been two years since I signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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.
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