A Detour Strategy for the Test Ban Treaty

Israel and the 2012 Middle East Nuclear Meeting

“…10 Subsequent developments hence became sidelined or under-resourced: the submission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty for Congressional approval was postponed. 11 Negotiations on a treaty addressing fissile material became bogged down in Geneva. 12 Successive bilateral talks with Moscow became increasingly difficult: on top of other thorny issues, Washington rejected any constraints on its missile defence plans and the Kremlin did not want to discuss its tactical nuclear weapons deployments.…”