Resources on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

General information from the Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes

• General Description
• Ratification Status of World's Countries

CTBT EIF Conference

• Press Release
• Report of the Conference and Final Declaration
• Agenda of the Conference
• Background Document
• Speeches made at the Conference
• Final Declaration Unanimously Adopted at CTBT Conference

Reports & Transcripts

• Axworthy Regrets Decision By U.S. Senate Not to Ratify Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• "Not Quite Ready and Waiting - The CTBT Verification System"
• Briefing by Dr. Lawrence Scheinman, Director, CNS Washington Office
• The Future of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
• Chinese Response to the U.S. Senate Decision

Op-Eds

• CTBT Endgame in South Asia?
  Gaurav Kampani
• Op-Ed: Nuclear Free: Better than NATO
  Dr. William Potter and David Fischer
• Test Ban Treaty: Asian Concerns
  Tariq Rauf
• Op-Ed: International Impact of the Senate's Test Ban Debate
  William Potter and Nikolai Sokov
• Op-Ed: "Ratification of CTBT in U.S. National Security Interest"
  Tariq Rauf
• Op-Ed: Non-Proliferation and the Test Ban Treaty
  Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. and Hon. Lawrence Scheinman

Articles from The Nonproliferation Review

• The CTBT Special Conference on Entry Into Force,
  John V. Parachini with Tom Birmingham, Vol. 6.3 (Spr 99)
• Domestic-International Linkages: India and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,
  Dinshaw Mistry, Vol. 6.1 (Fall 98)
• Commercial Satellite Imagery and the CTBT Verification Process,
  Vipin Gupta & Frank Pabian, Vol. 5.3 (Spr 98)
• U.S. Senate Ratification of the CWC: Lessons for the CTBT,
  by John V. Parachini, Vol. 5.1 (Fall 97)

Related Links

• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO PrepCom)
• U.S. State Dept CTBT Page
• Conference on Disarmament
• Bulletin of Atomic Scientists nuclear testing Q&A
• Arms Control and International Security
• The Acronym Institute