Testing

Introduction to Nuclear Testing

• Overview
• The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• What is Subcritical Testing?
• The United States and Subcritical Nuclear Testing
• Statement of the Secretary of Energy Federico Pena on the Schedule for Subcritical Experiments
• Preserving the Golden Rule as a Piece of Anti-Nuclear History by Lawrence S. Wittner

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

• Read the treaty
• Statement by Ban-Ki-Moon on CTBT
• PONI Debates the Issues: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (Audio)
• Renew the Drive for CTBT Ratification, Washington Quarterly, April 2009.
• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Background and Current Developments, Jonathan Medalia, January 2009
• Political Significance of the CTBT and Perspectives of Entry into Force, Arms Control Association, July 2008
• Prospects for U.S. Ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Arms Control Association, June 2008
• Congressional Research Service report on the CTBT, May 2008
• The Future of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Center for Nonproliferation Studies, March 2008
• Resurrecting the Test-Ban Treaty, by Michael O'Hanlon.
• United Nations Leadup to Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 22 September 1995 General Conference

Effects of Testing on Health and Environment

• The Legacy of Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands by Robert Alvarez, June 8, 2010
• UK High Court Ruling on Health Effects of Nuclear Testing, January-February 2009
• Nuclear Weapons, the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain? by William Lambers, March 9, 2009
• Radionuclide Contamination at Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Test Site
• Consequences of Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
• Australian Strontium 90 Testing Program 1957-58, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency Report
• Costs Spiral on Underground Nuclear Testing, by Peter Weiss, July 1, 1997
• Banned Forever? New Push on Nuclear Tests, by Jonathan S. Landay, July 2, 1997
• Western Shoshone People Comment on Subcritical Nuclear Testing
• Physicians Protest Plutonium Test Scheduled for July 2 in Nevada

Nuclear Testing by Country

• US Nuclear Testing
• Russian Nuclear Testing
• Chinese Nuclear Testing
• French Nuclear Testing
• British Nuclear Testing
• North Korean Nuclear Testing