KYL SAYS CASE FOR TEST-BAN TREATY WORSE NOW THAN IN 1999

摘要

Supporters of the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, including officials in the Obama Administration, have said that the verification regime underpinning the pact has matured significantly since the Senate defeated the treaty in 1999, increasing the rationale for the agreement. But a key Republican Senator who has long opposed Senate ratification of the treaty suggested this week that the rationale for the treaty has actually diminished since the chamber last reviewed the treaty and that the success of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Stockpile Stewardship Program in increasing knowledge of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile has uncovered issues that would make giving up the nation's right to test a bad move.