Can I read The Making of the Test Ban Treaty on EtoBox?

The Making of the Test Ban Treaty by Ronald J. Terchek (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Making of the Test Ban Treaty about?

Eighteen years after the United States presented its plan for the international control of atomic energy to the United Nations, the first major arms control agreement was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union. Including Great Britain, the three major nuclear powers pledged to refrain from nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater in a treaty negotiated in Moscow within two weeks during the summer of 1963. It was hoped that the treaty would at least discourage those phases of the arms race which required large-yield nuclear explosions in the atmosphere or outer space as well as eliminate further radioactive pollution of the atmos phere. In addition, the test ban would discourage, though not eliminate, the development of nuclear weapons by other treaty adherents because the un derground testing allowed under the terms of the document would escalate already heavy costs for countries intending to conduct their first nuclear tests. The Kennedy administration expected other agreements to follow the test ban treaty, particularly an agreement to keep outer space free from 1 nuclear warheads and to outlaw underground tests in the near future. But one of th

Who reads The Making of the Test Ban Treaty?

Author

Ronald J. Terchek (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9789401195027

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Legal Theory & Philosophy