THE Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is in crisis. In 1999, the US Senate decided not to ratify the treaty, claiming it is impossible to verify. 51¶¯Âþs involved with the International Monitoring System disagree.
But some observers believe there is a more insidious reason why the US is holding back, because it wants to resume testing nuclear weapons. “The Bush administration appears to be slowly but steadily removing the obstacles preventing a resumption of US testing,” says Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association, a think tank in Washington DC. The clearest sign of this has come from the administration’s Nuclear…
