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handle is hein.crs/crsahfp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS20351 Updated June 28, 2005 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Pro and Con Jonathan Medalia Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Summary The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) would ban all nuclear explosions. President Clinton signed it in 1996 and transmitted it to the Senate in 1997. The Senate rejected it in 1999. To enter into force, 44 named nations, including the United States, must ratify the treaty. The Bush Administration opposes ratification but has maintained a moratorium on nuclear testing begun in 1992. This report presents pros and cons of key arguments: the treaty's implications for nuclear nonproliferation, for maintaining and developing nuclear weapons, for the value of nuclear weapons, and for maintaining U.S. nuclear advantage; monitoring issues; and potential consequences of resuming testing. This report will be updated periodically. See also CRS Issue Brief IB92099, Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and CRS Report 97-1007 F, Nuclear Testing and Comprehensive Test Ban: Chronology Starting September 1992. Status Following the treaty's defeat in 1999, and pursuant to Senate Rule XXX, paragraph 2, the treaty moved to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee calendar at the end of the 106' Congress, where it currently resides. In 2001, some in the Administration expressed interest in withdrawing the treaty from the Senate to mark formal U.S. rejection. Pursuant to Senate Rule XXX, paragraph 1(d), a Senate motion to return the treaty to the President would require a simple majority vote, but that motion would be debatable, and cloture would require 60 votes. No such motion has been made. As of June 28, 2005, 175 nations had signed the treaty and 121 had ratified it. The CTBT and Nuclear Nonproliferation Pro-treaty case: Many see halting nuclear proliferation as critical. Some link the CTBT and nonproliferation as follows. (1) The treaty will make it harder for nations to develop advanced nuclear weapons. (2) The parties to the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), including the United States, pledged in Article VI to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament ... When the parties decided in 1995 to extend the Congressional Research Service + The Library of Congress

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