Nuclear Test Ban Converting Political Visions to Reality /

• Main Authors: Haak, Hein (Author), Mykkeltveit, S. (Author), Dahlman, Ola (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Political science.; Science.; Geophysics.; Geotechnical engineering.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Science, general.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.

The book gives a broad presentation in laymen's language of the creation and the implementation of the treaty prohibiting nuclear test explosions (Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: CTBT), one of the key guarantors of nuclear non-proliferation. The writers, who personally guided this work f...

Table of Contents:

• To Test or Not to Test
• Monitoring Technologies
• A Long Journey to a Treaty
• The Treaty
• The Birth of An Organization
• Establishing the Verification Regime
• Testing Shows High Performance
• National Technical Implementation of the CTBT
• The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the PTS - an Organizational Perspective
• The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the World
• Always Too Early to Give Up.