The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; New Technology, New Prospects?
New York: EastWest Institute, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. [4], iv, 12, [4] pages, plus covers. Footnotes. Decorative front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Contents include a Foreword, Executive Summary, Introduction, Maintaining the Safety, Security, and Reliability of the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile under a CTBT; Detecting Nuclear Tests Under a CTBT, Do New Technological Advances Make CTBT Ratification More Likely?; Conclusion, and Appendix. Jacqueline McLaren Miller was a Senior Associate in the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative at the EastWest Institute, where she ran the U.S. program. Her programmatic work focused on the U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China bilateral relationships as well as nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation issues. Among her publications is the co-edited book Post-Communist Politics and Change in Russia and East/Central Europe (2005). Previously, Jacqueline served as Deputy Director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington program. She was assistant director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and assistant director of the highly-regarded Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS). She has also served as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University. Her honors include being named a Truman Security Fellow (2010) and she was an International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Visiting Scholar in Kyrgyzstan. . Jacqueline has an AB and an MPA from Cornell University and an MPhil from The George Washington University. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty that bans nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996, but has not entered into force, as eight specific nations have not ratified the treaty. The Treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996. It opened for signature in New York on 24 September 1996, when it was signed by 71 States, including five of the eight then nuclear-capable states. As of March 2022, 172 states have ratified the CTBT and another 13 states have signed but not ratified it. The treaty will enter into force 180 days after the 44 states listed in Annex 2 of the treaty have ratified it. These "Annex 2 states" are states that participated in the CTBT's negotiations between 1994 and 1996 and possessed nuclear power reactors or research reactors at that time. As of 2021 eight Annex 2 states have not ratified the treaty: China, Egypt, Iran, Israel and the United States have signed but not ratified the Treaty; India, North Korea and Pakistan have not signed it. The EastWest Institute (EWI), originally known as the Institute for East-West Security Studies and officially the Institute for EastWest Studies, Inc., was an international not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank focusing on international conflict resolution through a variety of means, including track 2 diplomacy and track 1.5 diplomacy (conducted with the direct involvement of official actors), hosting international conferences, and authoring publications on international security issues. The organization employed networks in political, military, and business establishments in the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. EWI was founded by John Edwin Mroz and Ira D. Wallach in 1980 as an independent, global organization that promotes peace by creating trusted settings for candid, global discourse among leaders to tackle intractable security and stability challenges. Mroz served as president and CEO of the institute for 34 years until his death, in 2014. EWI has a long-standing track record of convening dialogue and back channel diplomacy to develop sustainable solutions for major political, economic and security issues. The organization’s initial success was rooted during the Cold War—in fact, EWI hosted the first ever military-to-military dialogue between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries. From its roots as a European-American initiative to bridge the divisions between Europe and Eurasia, Mroz built the institute into one of the world’s preeminent non-governmental change-agent institutions. After four decades of distinctive service, the organization discontinued operations effective January 31, 2021. Condition: Good.
Keywords: CTBT, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons Testing, Verification, Test Detection, Weapon Safety, Weapon Reliability, Weapon Security, Stockpile Stewardship, Treaty Ratification, Monitoring, Warhead Replacement
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