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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective

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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has had a long and interesting history. It was painstakingly negeotiated over a period of many years and signed ten years ago. Then a whole series of countries: China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and the United States refused to ratify it. At the same time, they announced that they would abide with the main provisions of the treaty.

It's also interesting that the treaty doesn't ban the bomb itself, it only bans the testing of nuclear devices. That's not exactly the same thing, but almost. If you built a bomb, you would never be certain that it wouldn't fizzle when you tried to use it for real, so you'd want to test it. Likewise the technology of bomb making advances and this too needs testing.

This book is a general overview of the treaty, how it was negeotiated, and what's been happening towards ratification. It also includes a copy of the treaty.

It's strange that a majority of the world's countries, a majority of the world's people want the treaty to be in place, but it appears now that there is little chance of it being passed. This is a very interesting book as it gives a good overview of how such treaties are negeotiated at a world wide level.