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Nuclear Test Ban

Converting Political Visions to Reality

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  1. Hein Haak
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  2. S. Mykkeltveit
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  3. Ola Dahlman
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  • CTBT is likely to be on the front pages the coming years - this book gives you the background
  • The most comprehensive verification system ever created is soon operational - this book gives you an assessment
  • Science for Security is a concept of the CTBT and of this book
  • Provides a unique insight to the creation and implementation of a treaty by those at the helm

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. To Test or Not to Test

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 1-23

  3. Monitoring Technologies

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 25-58

  4. A Long Journey to a Treaty

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 59-81

  5. The Treaty

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 83-98

  6. The Birth of An Organization

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 99-111

  7. Establishing the Verification Regime

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 113-142

  8. Testing Shows High Performance

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 143-171

  9. National Technical Implementation of the CTBT

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 173-181

  10. The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the PTS - an Organizational Perspective

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 183-199

  11. The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the World

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 201-221

  12. Always Too Early to Give Up

    • Ola Dahlman, P. Mykkeltveit, Hein Haak
    Pages 223-237

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 239-277
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About this book

Nuclear tests have caused public concern ever since the first such test was conducted, more than six decades ago. During the Cold War, however, con- tions were not conducive to discussing a complete ban on nuclear testing. It was not until 1993 that negotiations on such a treaty finally got under way. From then on, things moved relatively quickly: in 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). To date, the Treaty has been signed by 178 states and ratified by 144, though it has yet to enter into force, as nine out of 44 ‘‘Annex 2 states’’, whose ratification is mandatory, have not heeded the call. Nevertheless, the CTBT verification system is already provisionally operational and has proven its effectiveness. We commend the CTBT organisation in Vienna for its successful efforts to build a verification network. This book is an excellent overview of the evolution of the CTBT and its verification regime. The authors are eminent scholars from the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden who have been intimately involved with the CTBT and its verification agency, the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, from their inc- tion to the present day. They have written a thorough and engaging narrative of the long road that led to the CTBT. Their story will appeal to both the layman and the expert and provide useful lessons for future negotiations on disarmament issues.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"Drawing from their experience, the authors provide a well-structured and comprehensive view of the CTBT, from the construction of nuclear devices to the promising first results of the monitoring system of the treaty. In an impeccable edition, the chapters are clearly divided into subsections, and numerous illustrations are used to clarify the arguments in the text."

G. Suarez, EOS Newsletter, Vol. 91, No. 21, p. 193

“The book focuses on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the CTBT Organization (CTBTO) that runs the International Monitoring System (IMS) and the International Data Centre (IDC). The authors are experienced researchers with outstanding experience in seismic monitoring and who have helped to create what is now CTBTO. … seems very important to scientists dealing with seismic- or hydroacoustic, infrasound and radionuclide monitoring … .” (Pawel Wiejacz, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 167, 2010)

“It is a solid reference edition concerning the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), International Nuclear Explosion Monitoring System (IMS) and Preparatory Commission of the CTBT Organization. … the authors produced a multilayered book in which one can distinguish several conceptual layers. … the text is supplied with a lot of photographs, maps and diagrams … . The structure of the book is designed to make good that thesis. … gives the reader a holistic view of the diplomatic struggle for the nuclear test ban.” (Alexey Fenenko, International Trends, Vol. 8 (3), September-December, 2010)

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