Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Bickering at the Nuclear Test-Ban Organization Reflects Global Hardening

• October 21, 2020

VIENNA — For the first time in its 24-year history, state parties to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a multilateral agreement that bans all nuclear testing worldwide, have taken a controversial decision by a two-thirds majority. Decisions in the treaty’s body are usually taken by consensus. The majority decision on Oct. 19 was focused …

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Time Runs Short for the US to Ratify the Test Ban Treaty

Barbara Crossette

• November 6, 2014

When the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was adopted and opened for government signatures at the United Nations in 1996, the United States was among the first of more than 180 countries to sign the agreement to end nuclear test explosions and prevent nations with nuclear weapons ambitions from pursuing those goals. The US unilaterally …