Test Ban Treaty, Take Two -- A Commentary

White House, Treaty Room. President Kennedy signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 07 October 1963

The New Atlantis:

Banning Tests Won’t Stop Nuclear Weapons Development.

To judge by the hopes of its supporters, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is indispensable to the longstanding goal of nuclear disarmament: It would preclude the development of new nuclear weapons and set existing stockpiles on the road to aging and unreliable obsolescence. To its critics, however, the treaty’s flaws more than match these claimed benefits. In their view, the CTBT is a mischievous plot to disarm the most sophisticated and scrupulous nuclear-armed state—namely, the United States—while leaving reliable weapons in the hands of those with less technically advanced designs and giving cheating opportunities to those who lack our reluctance to break the treaties we sign.

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My Comment: The key sentence in this report is in the last paragraph .... As the saying goes, the devil is in the details.

There are a lot of details in this article, and if this is your thing, go ahead and read it all.