A brief historical and analytical understanding of the difficulties encountered in negotiating and implementing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and their implications for efforts to halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Includes full text of the treaty and supplementary materials.

@bmct:Contents @toc4:Foreword iii @tocca:Ambassador Thomas Graham @toc4:Acknowledgements iii Abbreviations and Acronyms iii Preface iii @toc2:Introduction 1 1. Early Efforts to Limit Nuclear Testing 000 2. Negotiations, Part 1 A Unique Historical Opportunity for the CTBT 000 3. Negotiations, Part 2 Challenges Emerge 000 4. Negotiations, Part 3 End Game--India Bolts 000 5. Implementation, Part 1 Ratifications and Establishing the PrepCom 000 6. Implementation, Part 2 Bumps in the Road 000 7. Implementation, Part 3 Impact of Change in U.S. Policy 000 8. Implications of Alternative CTBT Futures for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime 000 9. Conclusion 000 @toc1:Appendices @toc2:A. Chronology of Efforts to Ban the Testing of Nuclear Weapons 000 B. COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY (CTBT) Text 000 C. United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) CTBT Resolution and Voting Record, September 10, 1996 000 D. Resolution Establishing the CTBT Preparatory Commission 000 E. Some Lessons Learned from CTBT Negotiations and Implementation 000 F. NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY Text 000 G. 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Final Document 000 H. Proliferation Security Initiative Fact Sheet 000 I. UN Security Council Resolution 1540 000 @toc4:Bibliography 000 Index 000 About the Author 000

There may be no better succinct reader available on the nuclear test ban treaty negotiations. This one captures not only the imagination, but also promotes a strong sense of the frenzied nature of global attempts to secure a future freed from the constant threat of a planetary nuclear winter."