Contrary to Ms. Thernstrom, we do not seek to ban standardized testing.

Ever since, the general noted, the military has supported the treaty banning underground nuclear testing.

The Senate just yesterday voted to ban advanced testing on his Star Wars program.

The Carter Administration set out to negotiate a comprehensive treaty to ban nuclear testing.

Eisenhower publicly opposed these ideas, even though in private he was working on a proposal to ban atmospheric nuclear testing.

Voicing concern about the conflict, leading industrial nations urged both countries to sign the international treaty banning nuclear testing.

The best way to end the arms race, they asserted, was to ban nuclear testing, which they hoped would stop nuclear weapons evolution.

I am in favour both of banning testing on animals and the marketing of the products tested.

There is a long history of trying to ban nuclear testing, stretching back to the 1950s.

Earlier this month, India effectively scuttled a global treaty to ban testing of nuclear weapons, leaving little doubt about its own intentions.