But it would prohibit the testing and development of ABM systems or components of such systems that are based in space, at sea, in the air or on land, if they are mobile.
John F. Kennedy's Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty in 1963, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons under water, in the atmosphere, or in outer space and was signed by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom.
In 1996 the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons, was signed though it has not yet entered into force and two years later a treaty banning the production and export of antipersonnel land mines (Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction) was concluded.
The absence of consistent and specific brain abnormalities in tgN3MUT mice prohibited the testing of a potential correlation between NOTCH3 score and brain phenotype.
We suggested that this pattern was best explained by a decline in female motivation to seek EPC resulting from hormonal changes associated with greater incubation intensity (Vedder et al. 2010), but the absence of incubation data prohibited the testing of this hypothesis.
The laws in several countries (e.g., Austria, Switzerland, and Germany) establish this procedure because it prohibits the genetic testing of cells derived from cleavage preimplantation embryo.
Mr. Paterson and Mr. Klein also said that a state law that prohibits the use of test score data in deciding teacher tenure had hurt the state's chances.
Bioethical principles of human subjects research have developed in response to several examples of morally reprehensible research involving humans over the past 70 years (Josefson 2001; Katz et al. 2006) that prohibit the deliberate testing of humans for the purpose of establishing toxicity without expected benefit to the subjects of such testing (Silbergeld et al. 2004).
The absence of a sound economic basis for policy is reflected in the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) ill-considered decision to prohibit the private testing of beef for mad cow disease.
The finding raises questions about whether the Bush administration will redesign the tests, postpone them or withdraw from the treaty, which prohibits the development and restricts testing of defenses against long-range ballistic missiles.
