Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

September 24, 1996 - The United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and 66 other UN member countries sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, barring the testing of nuclear weapons. December 1997 - Mohamed ElBaradei is appointed IAEA director-general. May 1998 - India ...

Until now it was known that the explosion had been recorded by the sensor system of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (one located on Ascension Island and another on Crozet Island) and by a report by analyst Bruce Rule, of the Office of Naval Intelligence of the United States ...

But the CD has been blocked ever since the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was adopted in 1996. Disagreements between states on which disarmament topics should be negotiated and linkages between issues have left the forum unable to agree on a way forward. However, in recent months ...

North Korea and the United States should ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear test explosions. Such a move would be a huge confidence building measure before Trump's and Kim Jong Un's meeting, which is expected by May. While Kim has pledge to refrain from ...

Eventually, the international community — led by the United States — agreed to halt all nuclear testing by negotiating the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996. Although the United States was the first to sign the CTBT, the treaty remains in limbo more than 20 years later because the ...

The author is Executive Secretary of CTBTO, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. The following is a slightly abridged and modified text of his address on 26 February to the High-level segment of the Conference on Disarmament, multilateral disarmament ...

The monitoring equipment was requested by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), which oversees a global ban on nuclear test explosions. Though the United States and Iran are among eight nuclear or atomic-aspiring nations that haven't ratified the 1997 treaty, organization ...

As for arms treaties, the review states that the United States will continue to comply with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty while refusing to sign it. The document ignores the U.N. Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which obligates the United States and other nuclear power ...

... of the NPT [Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons] and there's been lots of agreed documents and plans – the 2010 Action Plan for example – that have a very clear roadmap. These steps – ratify the CTBT [Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty], negotiate the FMCT [Fissile Material Cutoff ...

North Korea and the United States should each ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which bans all nuclear test explosions. ... So let's get the summit off to a good start now by the U.S. and North Korea each ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and paving the road toward ...