Nuclear Weapons And Security: The Effects Of Alternative Test Ban Treaties

by Jonathan Medalia (Editor)

Overview

This book presents the debate on the test ban issue. Its first goal is agreement on effective verification measures to make it possible to ratify the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429714986
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/07/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jonathan Medalia is a Specialist in National Defense, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- The Test Ban Debate: Forty Years of New and Recurring Themes -- Overview of U.S. and Soviet Nuclear Weapons and Testing Programs -- Effects of More Restrictive Nuclear Test Bans on New Weapon Development -- Effects of More Restrictive Test Bans on Maintaining Confidence in the Warhead Stockpile -- Effects of More Restrictive Test Bans on Nuclear Effects Testing -- Verification Issues -- Effects of More Restrictive Test Bans on Other Countries* -- The International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime -- International Verification: The IAEA -- Linkage of a CTBT with the Non-Proliferation Regime: Views from the NPT Review Conferences of 1975, 1980 and 1985 -- List of Non-Aligned Nations Showing Which Are Parties to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Latin American Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, and the Non-Proliferation Treaty -- Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water* -- Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests* -- Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes* -- Letter of Introduction -- Letter of Submittal -- Letter of Transmittal