The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Counterproliferation Papers, Future Warfare Series, Number 54)

Abstract

Since 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has been open to states for signature with a goal of ending all nuclear testing. While it has had moderate success, several key states have not yet ratified it and brought it into force. To date, 181 countries have signed the treaty and 149 have ratified it, with ratification being the sticking point with China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, and the United States. If President Barack Obama's administration follows through with its stated goal of ratifying the CTBT, what are the pros, cons for U.S. national security, and specifically what are the associated impacts on the U.S. nuclear stockpile, its deterrence capabilities, and global nuclear arms control?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA556598

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  • Jeffrey D. Neischel

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  • Counter WMD

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  • Air Force
  • Arms Control
  • Arms Control Treaties
  • Explosions
  • Fissile Materials
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Nuclear Proliferation
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

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