Renew the Drive for CTBT Ratification

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. “Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,” April 23, 2007, http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fpccga/. 2. “Remarks of Senator Barack Obama, Summit on Confronting New Threats,” Purdue University, Indiana, July 16, 2008, http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/amandascott/gGxPZW (hereinafter Obama's New Threat Remarks). 3. Obama's New Threat Remarks; “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007, p. A15. 4. “2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Final Document,” pp. 14-15, http://www.un.org/spanish/Depts/dda/2000FD.pdf. 5. Michael Gordon, “U.S. Nuclear Plan Sees New Targets and New Weapons,” New York Times, March 10, 2002, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E0D61F30F933A25750C0A9649C8B63. 6. Deepti Choubey, Are New Nuclear Bargains Attainable? (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2008), http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/new_nuclear_bargains.pdf. 7. George Schultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn, “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007, p. A15 8. Andrew Stern, “Obama Would Seek Nuclear Ban,” Boston Globe, October 3, 2007, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/03/obama_would_seek_nuclear_ban/; “Remarks by John McCain on Nuclear Security,” University of Denver, Colorado, May 27, 2008 (hereinafter McCain Remarks). 9. Obama's New Threat Remarks. 10. For further information, see “Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty” ( Washington D.C.: National Academies Press, 2000), chapter 3. 11. Daryl Kimball, “How the U.S. Senate Rejected CTBT Ratification,” Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 40 (September–October 1999), http://www.acronym.org.uk/40wrong.htm. 12. McCain Remarks. 13. “Gates: Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in the 21st Century” (speech, Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Washington D.C., October 28, 2008), http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/1028_transcrip_gates_checked.pdf. 14. Joe Lieberman voted in favor of the CTBT ratification in 1999 and has shown no signs that he regrets that vote. Additional informationNotes on contributorsJofi JosephJofi Joseph is a senior Democratic foreign policy staffer in the United States Senate