Titlebook: Nuclear Test Ban; Converting Political Hein Haak,S. Mykkeltveit,Ola Dahlman Book 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Arms Contro

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To Test or Not to Test,ce that divided the world between those having nuclear weapons and those that decided not to have them or that so far have been unable to acquire them. Eight States have conducted in all more than 2000 nuclear test explosions involving some 2400 nuclear devices. The USA and the former Soviet Union have carried out the lion’s share of these tests.

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Monitoring Technologies,ation regime of the CTBT. In giving this background we will make some references to the International Monitoring System (IMS), which is a key part of the CTBT verification regime and which is discussed from different perspectives in Chapters 4, 6 and 7.

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A Long Journey to a Treaty,gotiations take time, move in small steps and require patience and further, that the possibility of making progress is held hostage by the general political situation, especially among the key players.

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