Contemporary research on congressional activism in American foreign policy indicates that individual members of Congress have become more assertive over time. If so, the motivations and interests of individual members of Congress are even more important for understanding American foreign policy. What factors motivate members of Congress as they take a more active role in foreign policy than ever before? Recent research suggests that partisanship has increased in importance over the past three decades. This paper examines Senate ratification votes on the Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963), Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (1968), Chemical Weapons Convention (1997) and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1999) to gauge the relative importance of three determinants of congressional voting - partisa...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite, scheduled to be launched on Saturday, Feb. 14, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Station, will include sophisticated nuclear test detection sensors from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). NNSA's advanced nuclear detonation detection payload, a primary detection system for nuclear explosions in the upper atmosphere and space, will be the satellite's secondary payload. These space-based sensors, developed by NNSA's Office of Nonproliferation Research and Engineering, are used to monitor the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, and to deter proliferant nations from conducting nuclear tests. NNSA develops and provides a wide variety of technologies to stem the proliferation of weapons...
Editor, the Tribune: Many thanks to Bill Clark for his well- written article concerning the history of U.S. nuclear weapons testing in Nevada and his own experience as a guinea pig for the 23- kiloton "Badger" test in 1953. As he notes, U.S. atmospheric testing officially ended in 1963, which was in keeping with the signing and ratification of the U.S.- Soviet Limited Test Ban Treaty that prohibited atmospheric testing but did not outlaw underground tests by either country.
In 1947, THE BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS, a magazine founded by nuclear scientists based in Chicago who had worked on the first atomic bomb, created a Doomsday Clock to signal, in their view, how close the world had come to nuclear catastrophe. In 2006, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists still publishes and its editors still set the Doomsday Clock, whose minute hand has, over time, moved closer to or further away from midnight depending on their assessment of the current nuclear danger--for 2006, as in 1947, the clock stands at seven minutes to midnight. Here, Bee discusses various issues about the future of nuclear weapons, whether and how they might get used in anger, by design or by accident.
... Nations and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an accord on the books since 1970. All thre...On Halloween 1961, the Soviets tested the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, a 58-me... like the 1963 hotline Agreement and Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), as well as the NPT that ga...
... openly contemplated whether this ASAT test signals the beginning of a new space arms race. (1...(63) Along with the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States i..., technological and budgetary restraints limited membership into the space club to the ultra elite....
With its profusion of languages, ethnic groups and regional diversities, with its unique caste system, with its contrast between information technology and industry billionaires and the nearly 300 million people who live below the poverty line, with its mixture of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy and outbreaks of savage communal violence, and with its success as a parliamentary democracy despite having 400 million people who cannot read or write, India remains a bewilderingly complex country. A powerful moral leader as well as a wily politician, Gandhi wanted Indians to be proud of their past, to wear Indian rather than foreign dress, to challenge their colonial overlords through peaceful protest and noncooperation and not through violence, and to eliminate discrimination against...
... in New Delhi, India passed one of the major tests of a democracy, the peaceful and orderly transfer ... regional and caste-based parties, usually limited to a single state, and the rise of the Hindu-natio... Baghdad Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) security groupings, in additi...
RPHP's allegations about elevated cancer rates in the area around Vermont Yankee were circulated to the press just as the debate over nuclear-reactor safety was coming to a head in Windham County. Last week, the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) approved a request by the owners of Vermont Yankee to boost the plant's power output by 20 percent. If the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) signs off on the power "uprate," Vermont Yankee will become the oldest nuclear reactor in the country to attempt a power increase of this scale. Vermont's health officials are not the first ones to look at [Joseph Mangano]'s findings with a skeptical eye. An article about RPHP in the November 11, 2003 issue of The New York Times notes that despite the fact that the group's members have published ...
... fallout from the military's atomic weapons tests in the Nevada desert. A researcher at Washington U... States and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty. Levels dropped precipitously ther...
, by James Schwoch, is reviewed.
... were threatened by high-altitude testing of nuclear weapons. The Limited Test Ban Treaty of...
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