Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Keith A. Hansen, Consulting Professor of International Relations at Stanford University, was involved in the CTBT negotiations and implementation activities for eight years as a member of the U.S. negotiating team.

There may be no better succinct reader available on the nuclear test ban treaty negotiations. This one captures not only the imagination, but also promotes a strong sense of the frenzied nature of global attempts to secure a future freed from the constant threat of a planetary nuclear winter." - American Society of International Law "This is a very comprehensive and well-written and, at the same time, quite compact survey of what everyone needs to know about the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treat and, more broadly, about the entire effort to hold back the spread of nuclear weapons." - Political Science Quarterly "...the book is a fascinating read both for the general reader and the specialist. It will be an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to delve further into the lessons learned from one of the most complex multilateral negotiations undertaken in the latter half of the twentieth century." - Arms Control Today "This book presents the fascinating story of the multilateral negotiations that produced the treaty banning nuclear weapon tests, as told by a participant in those negotiations. This is a treaty that the U.S. Senate has so far failed to approve, and that the administration of President George W. Bush now opposes—yet most of the rest of the world supports it. Will it ever go into effect?" - George Bunn (Stanford University) "I know of no other book that brings so authoritatively to the reader the issues addressed during the process of negotiating the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This is a very valuable contribution to a greater understanding of the CTBT and the overall nuclear arms control picture." - Sidney Drell (Stanford University)

• @bmct:Contents @toc4:Forewordiii @tocca:Ambassador Thomas Graham @toc4:Acknowledgementsiii Abbreviations and Acronymsiii Prefaceiii @toc2:Introduction1 1. Early Efforts to Limit Nuclear Testing000 2. Negotiations, Part 1A Unique Historical Opportunity for the CTBT000 3. Negotiations, Part 2Challenges Emerge000 4. Negotiations, Part 3End Game--India Bolts000 5. Implementation, Part 1Ratifications and Establishing the PrepCom000 6. Implementation, Part 2Bumps in the Road000 7. Implementation, Part 3Impact of Change in U.S. Policy000 8. Implications of Alternative CTBT Futures for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime000 9. Conclusion000 @toc1:Appendices @toc2:A. Chronology of Efforts to Ban the Testing of Nuclear Weapons000 B. COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY (CTBT) Text000 C. United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) CTBT Resolution and Voting Record, September 10, 1996000 D. Resolution Establishing the CTBT Preparatory Commission 000 E. Some Lessons Learned from CTBT Negotiations and Implementation000 F. NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY Text000 G. 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Final Document000 H. Proliferation Security Initiative Fact Sheet000 I. UN Security Council Resolution 1540000 @toc4:Bibliography000 Index000 About the Author000