Sentence examples for of a test ban from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush's advisers have been deeply divided on the merits of a test ban.

"It is up to the West!" the Communist party newspaper "Pravda" said in a headline over a lengthy story on the talks, which appear to hold one of the last hopes of a test ban treaty.

The White House ultimately abandoned the idea of a test ban.

On 29 May 1962 he urged that Britain not be a party to the renewal of nuclear tests, and in a speech on 23 July he said: "The unilateral abandonment of testing or, better still, a test ban agreement would be the most valuable first step towards general and complete disarmament".

In doing so he thwarted Eisenhower's dream of a test-ban to end the arms race.

More so than ever, the treaty is as much in America's interests as anybody's.The official line remains, as critics of a test-ban claimed the first time round, that the treaty has two dangerous flaws.

And Beijing agreed to a partnership on arms control and methods of verifying a test-ban treaty -- an agreement destined to bring the two nations' nuclear scientists even closer together.

I was young, idealistic, and excited to be working towards a better world with peace in Central America and the ratification of a nuclear test ban treaty.

But the agreements reached at the summit in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, including an indefinite extension of a ballistic missile test ban by North Korea and promises of large-scale aid by Japan, seem far afield from the position of the Bush administration.

Only after the Soviets accused Washington of violating a nuclear test ban treaty did the United States concede, more than a month later, that the detonators on two of the three bombs that landed here had exploded on impact.

As a result of the test ban, North Korea has yet to test an intercontinental-range missile that could deliver a nuclear payload to the United States.