Word: test-ban
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...side, a moral complacency and dismissive arrogance that expressed itself when the American elan went venturing into Viet Nam. But Kennedy, when he died, was also veering away from the cold war. He made an eloquently conciliatory speech at American University in June 1963, and he accomplished the limited test-ban treaty. He had many plans, for Medicare, for civil rights, for other projects...
...torpedoes test-ban talks...
...verification procedures that the Administration says it wants to "strengthen" before negotiating a comprehensive ban are in two treaties. The 1974 Threshold Test-Ban Treaty (TTBT) outlaws all underground detonations of warheads having an explosive yield larger than 150 kilotons. (Detonations above ground or under sea are prohibited by a previous treaty.) The 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNE) provides for the same explosive limits if nuclear blasting should ever be used in such enterprises as mining or canal digging. TTBT requires a U.S.-Soviet exchange of relevant data, which can then be checked against seismic sensor readings. PNE goes...
...comprehensive test ban would eliminate all nuclear blasts and thus prevent test-firing of warheads for the next generation of U.S. missiles. Apparently Reagan believes those tests are essential, even if for political reasons he is unwilling to say so. As for the Soviets, the official news agency TASS commented that Reagan's stated dissatisfaction with verification was "no more than a pretext for sabotaging the [test-ban] talks...
...Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty...