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Krauss: US should ratify Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty


May 01, 2012

Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, an ASU Foundation Professor and director of the ASU Origins Project, calls for the U.S. Congress to ratify the international Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in a recent Future Tense article that is featured in Slate magazine.

In the article, "It's Time for the U.S. To Finally Sign the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty," Krauss builds his argument on a recently released report by the National Research Council that determined "the United States has the technical capabilities to maintain a safe, secure, and reliable stockpile of nuclear weapons into the foreseeable future without nuclear-explosion testing" providing that the U.S. maintains "sufficient resources and a national commitment to stockpile stewardship."

In the article, Krauss explains what the treaty requires of nation-states and that 157 countries already have ratified the treaty.

Krauss also asserts that it is "hypocritical to vilify North Korea for testing nuclear weapons, or Iran for possibly trying to manufacture them," if the U.S. Congress has not ratified the treaty, and ultimately does not make the U.S. safer by refusing to sign the treaty.

Future Tense is a collaboration among ASU, the New America Foundation and Slate magazine that explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy and culture. Central to the partnership is a series of events in Washington, D.C., that take in-depth, provocative looks at issues that will dramatically shape the policy debates in the coming decade.

Access the entire article below.

Article source: Slate Magazine

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