Why CTBT Failed to Get Ratified

With polls showing that more than eight of 10 adult Americans favor ratification of the CTBT (Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, 1999), the simple solution to the problem for the American voting public would be to withhold their votes from Republican senatorial candidates. Quite obviously, such behavior has not occurred at a frequency that would lead to a solution to the problem of ratification of the CTBT. Thus, while the actual vote against CTBT ratification may be explained by rank partisanship in the Senate, the Republican senators must know something about American voters that is not reflected in the polls showing 80 percent support for the CTBT to justify the thumbing of their coll

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state got all it wanted, although the nuclear weapon states had more reason to be gratified than the non nuclear weapon states. The United States, Russia, Britain, and France wanted the treaty extended indefinitely and unconditionally. Only the first part of their wish was fully granted. A core group of 14 non-aligned states, led by Indonesia, wanted the treaty extended for a series of rolling fixed periods of 25 years, subject to reaching certain goals during each time period. Their demands included a comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT), legally binding assurances to non-nuclear states against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, a cut-off of the production of and the elimination of stockpiles of weapon and usable fissile material, the elimination of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, the establishment of additional nuclear-weapon-free zones, the non-discriminatory transfer of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, and the achievement of universality·bringing Israel, India, and Pakistan·all undeclared nuclear powers·into the fold. Mexico, in return for accepting an indefinite extension, asked for a program of action similar to that of the non-aligned states-but more specific: a CTBT had to be
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