Nuclear Test Ban: Converting Political Visions to Reality

Foreword Preface Chapter 1 To test or not to test...1.1 Testing history - more than 2000 nuclear explosions1. 2 Nuclear weapons - with and without testing1. 3 Why a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?1.4 Related nuclear arms control and disarmament treatiesChapter 2. Monitoring technologies2.1 Nuclear explosions - detectable features2.2 Detection, location and identification2.3 Seismological monitoring2.4 Hydroacoustic monitoring2.5 Infrasound monitoring2.6 Radionuclide monitoring2.7 Detection from space2.8 Enabling technologiesChapter 3 A long journey to a treaty3.1 Past test ban initiatives3.2 Group of Scientific Experts3.3 The CTBT negotiations 1994 - 963.4 Critical issues during the negotiations3.5 Reflections on the negotiationsChapter 4 The Treaty4.1 The preamble4.2 Basic obligations4.3 The Organization4.4 Verification4.5 National implementation measures4.6 Entry into force4.7 ReflectionsChapter 5 The birth of an organization5.1 The mandate of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission5.2 Preparations for the first session of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission5.3 The first session of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission5.4 The initial enthusiasm5.5 The early challengesChapter 6 Establishing the verification regime6.1 A complex monitoring system in a political environment6.2 Building the monitoring system - a gradual but slow process6.3 Some specific IMS issues6.4 On-site inspections a politicized issue on a slow pathChapter 7 Testing shows high performance7.1 Frombuilding to testing7.2 Global tests show high performance of IMS/IDC7.3 Exercises also get OSI on the moveChapter 8 National technical implementation of the CTBT8.1 National commitments8.2 National institutions play key roles in the global verification system8.3 Basis for national interpretation8.4 Regional cooperation8.5 An assessment of the status of national technical implementationChapter 9 The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the PTS - an organizational perspective9.1 The Policy Making Organs9.2 Provisional Technical Secretariat (PTS)9.3 Changing the guardChapter 10 The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the world10.1 States Signatories, the CTBTO Preparatory Commission and the PTS10.2 The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and international organizations10.3 Synergy with science10.4 The CTBT - hostage to today's politicsChapter 11 Always too early to give up11.1 Finally a CTBT - and then? A political perspective11.2 Most complex verification system ever - a scientific perspective11.3 Challenge to establish a technical organization in a political environment - a managerial perspective11.4 Bringing the CTBT back on track11.5 A new security agendaAnnex 1Annex 2Abbreviations and acronyms References