Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 01/2015

A Winning Gambit

Siegfried S. Hecker

September 2012

Center for International Security and Cooperation

Abstract

CISAC Co-Director Siegfried Hecker explains why nuclear arms states stand to gain more than they lose by ratifying the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). He explains why it is crucial to prevent states from testing nuclear weapons, with the strongest barrier to testing being the CTBT.