Set a Deadline to End Nuclear Testing

George Bunn, Hua Di, and John B. Rhinelander. George Bunn, of Stanford University's Center Control, was one of the Us negotiators of the non-proliferation treaty. Hua Di, a visiting scholar International Security and Arms Control, worked decades advisor to the Us Salt I delegation, practices law ., The Christian Science Monitor

WHEN the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - Britain, China, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States - meet again to limit the spread of dangerous weapons, they should try to set a date for ending their own tests of the most dangerous of them all: nuclear weapons. The five just conferred for two days in Paris to begin considering proposals to rein in arms sales and the proliferation of chemical and nuclear weapons. But they left off their agenda an important proposal that could help inhibit near-nuclear countries from testing their experimental devices to see how they work - a world-wide ban on all nuclear-weapon testing.

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Publication information: Article title: Set a Deadline to End Nuclear Testing. Contributors: George Bunn, Hua Di, and John B. Rhinelander. George Bunn, of Stanford University's Center Control, was one of the Us negotiators of the non-proliferation treaty. Hua Di, a visiting scholar International Security and Arms Control, worked decades advisor to the Us Salt I delegation, practices law . - Author. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: July 25, 1991. Page number: 19. © 2009 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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