Banning the Bang or the Bomb?
Negotiating the Nuclear Test Ban Regime

Analyses the expansion of the nuclear arms control regime, evaluating Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations and preparations for on-site inspections.

Mordechai Melamud (Edited by), Paul Meerts (Edited by), I. William Zartman (Edited by)

9781107044005, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 April 2014

410 pages, 15 b/w illus. 5 maps 3 tables
23.5 x 15.5 x 2.6 cm, 0.69 kg

'This volume will stand as a detailed guide to nuclear testing's past and present and a rare schematic of how international regimes can be built in practice.' Jonathan Hunt, H-Net

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), negotiated between 1994 and 1996, is the latest development in the nuclear arms control regime. It continues to serve a vital role in preserving the privileged status of the nuclear weapons states and barring the way to proliferation. Banning the Bang or the Bomb? brings together a team of leading international experts who together analyse its negotiation as a model of regime creation, examining collective dynamics, the behaviour of individual countries, and the nature of specific issues. The book offers practical guidance and training for members of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization future inspectorate to help negotiate their way during an on-site inspection (OSI) in an inspected state. This is a valuable resource for researchers and professionals alike that turns an analysis of what has happened into a manual for what is about to happen.

Introduction: negotiating the creation and implementation of an international regime I. William Zartman and Mordechai Melamud
Part I. Negotiation: 1. Banning nuclear explosive testing: the historical context and steps to implement the CTBT Pierce S. Corden
2. Negotiating the nuclear test ban: the verification debate and its effects on the negotiation process P. Terrence Hopmann
3. The negotiating process: a view from the Chair Jaap Ramaker
4. The importance of coupling in the limited test ban negotiations Fen Osler Hampson
5. The role of civil society in negotiating the CTBT Rebecca Johnson
6. CTBT negotiations: formulas and trade-offs I. William Zartman and Julia Lendorfer
7. The US debate Chris McIntosh
8. The Russian position on the CTBT Alexey Fenenko
9. Explaining why India opted out of the CTBT Ulrika Möller
Part II. Verification: 10. Nuclear test ban verification: from negotiations to entry into force Hein Haak
11. Enhancing the legal status of the CTBTO pending CTBT entry into force Franz Cede
12. Can a monitoring and verification system be designed by negotiation? Nicholas Kyriakopoulos
13. On-site inspections in the framework of CTBT verification: errors of the first and second kind Rudolf Avenhaus and Thomas Kriege
14. Preparations for negotiations on the noble gas categorisation scheme Martin Kalinowski and Simon Hebel
15. The case of Arcania: structure and actors in point of entry (POE) negotiations Ariel Macaspac Penetrante
16. On-site inspection as a progression of negotiation cases Mordechai (Moti) Melamud
17. Some preliminary thoughts on framing a training programme on negotiation for potential inspection teams P. Terrence Hopman
18. Putting OSI on the table Paul Meerts and Mordechai Melamud
19. Lessons from the CTBTO negotiation processes Mordechai (Moti) Melamud, Paul Meerts and I. William Zartman.

Subject Areas: International humanitarian law [LBBS], Nuclear weapons [JWMN], Arms negotiation & control [JPSF], International relations [JPS]