The following is a guest post by Jenny Nielsen from the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation.
2016 Open Ended Working Group: Towards 2017 Nuclear Weapon Ban Negotiations?
by | 2016-09-13 | 10 Comments
Senator Rubio and Kim Jong Un Weigh In on the CTBT
by | 2016-09-12 | 6 Comments
In rapid succession, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened its first Hearing on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in seventeen years, and Senator Marco Rubio and 32 Republican colleagues made public a letter to President Barack Obama opposing the administration’s UN Security Council resolution and a companion P-5 statement reaffirming the CTBT.
Lessons Learned from Eliminating WMD
by | 2016-09-07 | 3 Comments
If by some chance you haven’t already heard, the Nonproliferation Review is holding an event at the Washington, DC offices of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) this coming Monday, September 12 from 1 to 3 pm local time. We’ll be introducing a new special double issue on lessons learned from the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
The Enduring Value of the CTBT
by | 2016-09-06 | 3 Comments
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is turning its attention to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty for the first time since 1999, when it held the briefest of hearings on the Treaty before fast-forwarding it to the Senate, which rebuked President Bill Clinton by denying its consent to ratification. The vote was mostly along party lines …
