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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Hurried Trip to Moscow in 1974 to Negotiate the Threshold Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; 2. Development and Testing of Nuclear Weapons; 3. From the Early Negotiations to Halt Nuclear Testing to the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963; 4. Attempts to Hide Nuclear Tests: The Big-Hole Evasion Scheme; 5. U.S. Overestimation of Sizes of Soviet Underground Explosions: 1961â#x80;#x93;1974; 6. New Methods to Identify Underground Tests: 1963â#x80;#x93;1973; 7. Congressional Hearings on a Comprehensive Test Ban; 8. Peaceful Nuclear Explosions. |
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9. Heated Controversies Over Yields of Soviet Tests and an Unsuccessful Attempt at a CTBT10. Continued Debate About Yields, Accusations of Soviet Cheating on the Threshold Treaty, and Its Entry Into Force; 11. Renewed Interest in a CTBT, the OTA Report, and the Group of Scientific Experts: 1979â#x80;#x93;1996; 12. Dealing with â#x80;#x9C;Problemâ#x80;#x9D; or â#x80;#x9C;Anomalousâ#x80;#x9D; Events in the USSR and Russian Republic: 1972â#x80;#x93;2009; 13. Negotiating the Comprehensive Test Ban: Global Monitoring, 1993â#x80;#x93;2016; 14. Monitoring Nuclear Tests Sites and Countries of Special Concern to the United States. |
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15. Senate Rejection of the CTBT in 199916. The CTBT Task Force and the 2002 and 2012 Reports of the National Academies; 17. Strategic Nuclear Weapons: Soviet and U.S. Parity; 18. Nuclear War, False Alarms, Accidents, Arms Control, and Ways Forward; Glossary and Abbreviations; References; Index; Color Illustrations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (1996 September 10)
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (1996 September 10) |
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Sykes, L. R.
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Sykes, L. R. |
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (1996 September 10) |
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Nuclear weapons -- Testing.
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Nuclear weapons -- Testing. |
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Nuclear arms control.
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Nuclear arms control. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sykes, L.R. Silencing the bomb. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231182485 (DLC) 2017010287 |
| ISBN |
9780231544191 (electronic book) |
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0231544197 (electronic book) |
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9780231182485 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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