Nuclear test ban: converting political visions to reality

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 guardians against nuclearproliferation. The book gives a unique insight into the challenging international work to establish a complex technical system of global reach in a political environment, provided by those who guided this work for more than 25 years.The book reviews the extensive nuclear testing that has taken place and efforts and arguments to create a test ban. It describes the unprecedented effort at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva by scientists from around the world to form a common understanding on how to verify a test ban treaty and to develop a prototype of a global verification system. This work was also a significant confidence building activity at the height of the cold war. The book gives a brief analysis of the political negotiations and of the Treaty itself. CTBT is likely to be on the front pages the coming years - this book gives you the background The most comprehensive verification system ever created is soon operational - this book gives you an assessment Science for Security is a conceptof the CTBT and of this book Provides a unique insight to the creation and implementation of a treaty by those at the helm INDICE: Introduction. 1. To Test or not to Test (M). 2. Monitoring Techniques (L). 3. A long Journey to a Treaty (M). 4. The Treaty (M). 5. The Birth ofan Organization ( M ). 6. Establishing the verification regime (L). 7. Testing shows high performance (M). 8. National Data Centers (NDC) (M). 9. PTS – from an organizational perspective (M). 10. CTBTO and the world (M). 11. Lessons learned (M). The negotiations. The treaty. The implementation. General Reflexions.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-6883-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés