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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2004

Huw Llewellyn
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In 1954, following the US explosion of a large thermonuclear device in the South Pacific, Prime Minister Nehru of India led the first international call for a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing. It took until 10 September 1996 for the General Assembly of the United Nations to adopt the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). As at the end of April 1997, it had been signed by 142 states including the five nuclear-weapon states.

Keywords

disarmamentnuclear testson-site inspectionverification
Type
CURRENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 269 - 280
Copyright
© 1997 Kluwer Law International