Sentence examples for for a test ban from inspiring English sources

The demand for a test ban has thus become the touchstone of sincere peace seekers.

In 1958 they presented an appeal for a test ban to the United Nations in the form of a document signed by 9,235 scientists from 44 countries.

Since March, the 3 nuclear powers have been deliberating as a sub-committee of the 17-nation group, searching for a test ban treaty, while the committee as a whole devotes its attention to full-scale disarmament.

He said administration statements "leave open the option to test in the future, and I think that their current approach of rejecting the C.T.B.T. and continuing the moratorium is simply the most politically convenient approach given the overwhelming domestic and international support for a test ban and opposition to a resumption of testing".

Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that "10 years after the Senate debated the nuclear test ban, the world is much more technologically advanced," with higher confidence in maintaining a stockpile without testing and catching countries that signed up for a test ban but cheated.

In 1958, the Eisenhower administration joined the governments of the Soviet Union and Britain in halting nuclear weapons testing and began serious negotiations for a test ban treaty.

Securing the answers to such questions would help lay the ground for a test-ban negotiation.

Harold Macmillan had been addressing a conference about the arms race and the need for a test-ban treaty.

Under the new offer, formally proposed today, the United States would modify its requirements for a test-ban treaty if the Soviet Union agreed to the principle of international inspection.

A commitment by the five declared nuclear powers to complete negotiations for a test-ban treaty "no later than 1996," was key to achieving an indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by consensus of 178 nations last year.

She would also vote for a nuclear test ban treaty and to fund research for a missile defense system, she said.