Download or read book Technical Issues in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Ratification Debate written by Anna Péczeli and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades after the U.S. Senate declined in 1999 to give its consent to ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), the treaty remains in legal and political limbo. The 1999 ratification debate addressed a large number of issues. Rejection was driven by various policy and technical judgments. The treaty's future, whatever it might be, will be determined in part by how much perspectives might have changed in light of interim developments. Our purpose was to shed light on some of those developments and to assess their relevance. This technical re-examination begins with a short background section to introduce the key technical matters in discussion in the U.S. ratification process. Then it moves systematically through each of those topics with a review of relevant background information, a discussion of key points in debate, an analysis of subsequent experience, and a current assessment.