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Nuclear Testing
  • News Briefs
    June 4, 2010
  • Utah Senate Hopeful Supports CTBT
    May 27, 2010

    A Republican candidate for the Utah Senate seat, Mike Lee, announced Wednesday that if elected, he would likely vote to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday.

  • Nuclear Testing Debate Emerges in Utah
    May 24, 2010

    Two Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate set off a state-wide debate about the whether to resume nuclear weapons testing, leading to calls from key opinion leaders for them to reverse their position.

  • CTBT at the RevCon
    May 21, 2010

    The CTBT, as a key tenet of the nonproliferation regime, has been a noticeable part of the conversation at this month's NPT Review Conference in New York.

  • Nuclear Weapons "Modernization" Myths and Realities
    May 12, 2010

    Volume 1, Number 3

    Eighteen years after the last U.S. nuclear test, it is abundantly clear that maintaining the reliability of existing U.S. nuclear warheads does not depend on a program of nuclear test explosions. Over the past decade the U.S. Life Extension Program has successfully refurbished major warhead types, and with sufficient resources can continue to do so indefinitely.

  • Indonesia Brings Good News for CTBT Entry into Force
    April 30, 2010

    The Jakarta Post reported today that Indonesia plans to ratify the CTBT soon, despite previous announcements that the country would wait to ratify the treaty until the United States Senate voted to ratify.

  • The NPR and the CTBT
    April 15, 2010

    The new Nuclear Posture Review represents a significant boost to the political and substantive case for Senate ratification of the CTBT.

  • National Lab Directors Respond to JASON Report
    March 26, 2010

    Yesterday, Congressman Michael Turner, ranking Republican member on the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, released three letters from the directors of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratory written at his request on their views on the unclassified executive summary of December 2009 report of the JASON group of independent scientific experts on the stockpile stewardship program.

  • Utah House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Pro-CTBT Resolution
    March 26, 2010

    On Monday, the Utah House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S. Senate to give its advice and consent for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

  • Obama Budget Highlights Stockpile Work
    March 4, 2010

    The Obama administration is requesting $7.0 billion for fiscal year 2011 to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, a rise of almost 10 percent from the $6.4 billion Congress appropriated for the effort for fiscal year 2010.

    Administration officials say the increase is necessary to make up for insufficient funding over the past decade. In a Feb. 18 speech at the NationalDefenseUniversity in Washington, Vice President Joe Biden said that, under the administration’s plan, funding would increase by $5 billion over the next five years.

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