| Author (Corporate) | United States: Library of Congress: Congressional Research Service (CRS) |
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| Publisher | USA Congress: Library of Congress |
| Series Title | Reports and Issue Briefs |
| Series Details | RL33548 |
| Publication Date | 01/09/2016 |
| Content Type | Report |
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The Congressional Research Service, a department of the Library of Congress, conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of national and international policy issues. Some of the CRS work is carried out specifically for individual members of Congress or their staff and is confidential. However, there is also much CRS compiled material which is considered public but is not formally published on the CRS website. For that reason a number of other organisations try to keep track of these publications and make them publicly available via their own websites. Currently, ESO uses the following websites to track these reports and allow access to them in ESO: EveryCRSReport.com In some cases hyperlinks allows you to access all versions of a report, including the latest. Note that many reports are periodically updated.A ban on all nuclear tests has been on the nuclear arms control agenda for a very long time. Three treaties that entered into force between 1963 and 1990 limited, but did not ban, such tests. In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which would ban all nuclear explosions. It has, as of late 2016, not yet been ratified by the United States of America. As of August 2016, 183 states had signed the CTBT and 164, including Russia, had ratified it. However, entry into force requires ratification by 44 states specified in the treaty, of which 41 had signed the treaty and 36 had ratified. India, North Korea, and Pakistan had not signed the treaty. Nine conferences were held to facilitate entry into force, every other year, the latest on September 29, 2015. In years between these conferences, some foreign ministers met to promote entry into force of the CTBT. A ministerial meeting was held on June 13, 2016, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the CTBT. |
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| Subject Categories | Energy |
| Countries / Regions | Europe, Norway |
