Overview
A ban on all nuclear tests is the oldest item on the nuclear arms control agenda. Three treaties that entered into force between 1963 and 1990 limit, but do not ban, such tests. In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which would ban all nuclear explosions. In 1997, President Clinton sent the CTBT to the Senate, which rejected it in October 1999. In a speech in Prague in April 2009, President Obama said, "My administration will immediately and aggressively pursue U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty."
- | Author: Jonathan E. Medalia
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jun 26, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 76 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1508699143
- | ISBN-13: 9781508699149
