What is the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)?

October 7 - President Kennedy signs the Partial Test Ban Treaty, prohibiting all nuclear weapons testing providing an exception for underground nuclear testing only.

Israel has, however, signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

In the 1990's, he was on the winning side as President Clinton signed, and the United Nations endorsed, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

France and Russia were both opposed, and French officials said their main aim here was a plan to encourage both countries to sign and ratify the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Neocons take the opposite tack: degrade the arms control infrastructure (the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, etc.) and antagonize the masses.

After this test the 1963 Test Ban Treaty came into effect and surface testing was banned and underground testing became mandatory.

Furthermore, they state, the testing of new nuclear weapons would be prohibited by the proposed Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

They suggested that the Administration consider ratifying the 1974 Threshhold Test Ban Treaty without insisting on the additional on-site verification measures, the memorandum reports.

Their campaigning helped lead to the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union, effectively ending the above-ground testing of nuclear weapons.