THE US Senate was not justified in rejecting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1999, according to the US National Academy of Sciences, which has analysed the reasons the Senate cited for the rejection.
The treaty bans all tests of nuclear explosives, but opponents in the US government claimed it would prevent the country from safely maintaining its nuclear stockpile. They also said it would be impossible to monitor compliance, and that cheating would endanger US security. But a study published last week by the NAS refutes all three objections, and concludes that the US would be safer with…
