U.S. China Iran & Israel Agree On An Important Issue

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

F-ck The World, The U.N.'s nuclear test-ban treaty doesn't apply to them.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Ethiopia ratifies nuclear test-ban treaty as US, China, Iran and Israel
remain holdouts
Joshua Pantesco at 1:31 PM ET

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/08/ethiopia-ratifies-nuclear-test-ban.php

[JURIST] Ethiopia [JURIST news archive] on Tuesday submitted its
ratification [press release] of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban
Treaty (CTBT) [text; VRS backgrounder, PDF] to the UN Secretary-General.
The CTBT bans any nuclear explosion, for testing purposes or otherwise,
and was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1996. Thirty-four of the
44 signatories possessing nuclear research and power capabilities at
that time have ratified the treaty, and the treaty requires ratification
from all those signatory nations to enter into force.

A total of 176 states worldwide have signed the treaty, so far ratified
by 135. Among the key holdouts are the United States, China, Egypt,
India, Indonesia, Iran, and Israel. In January, the US boycotted a UN
conference [JURIST report] designed to encourage the then-11 nuclear
holdouts, who now number 10, to sign the treaty. FAS has more.