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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Negotiations
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Road to Peace: From the Disarming of the Great Lakes to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
From War to Peace: The Story of Great Britain and the United States
Nuclear Weapons: Documents, Video and Audio CD-ROMs: A Study Supplement for the book Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Negotiations
Click here to listen to President Eisenhower at a press conference on August 31, 1956 announce a nuclear test by the Soviet Union. This was one of hundreds of nuclear tests conducted by both the Soviet Union and the United States during the 1950's (Courtesy Eisenhower Library).
Click here to listen to President Eisenhower's statement on nuclear test ban treaty negotiations on August 22nd, 1958.
Click here to listen to President Eisenhower discuss the detection of nuclear tests at a press conference on June 17, 1959. A reporter asks about the Berkner Panel which studied underground nuclear test detection in 1959.
Click here to listen to President Eisenhower discuss a nuclear test ban proposal at a press conference on February 11, 1960.
Click here to listen to President Eisenhower at a press conference on March 30, 1960 discuss his reasons for pursuing a nuclear test ban treaty (Courtesy Eisenhower Library).
Click here to listen to President Kennedy announcing the Limited Test Ban Treaty on July 26, 1963 (courtesy John F. Kennedy Library).
Click here to listen to General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at Senate hearings on the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on August 15, 1963 (courtesy National Archives).
For more information about the nuclear test ban treaty please see the books The Road to Peace: From the Disarming of the Great Lakes to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Nuclear Weapons.
Click here to read a memorandum of a meeting in which President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan discuss the importance of a nuclear test ban treaty. (courtesy Eisenhower Library)
Click here to listen to President Eisenhower's news conference on March 11, 1959 which took place several days before the above meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan. (courtesy Eisenhower Library)
Read a letter from General Andrew Goodpaster to Senator Jesse Helms in 1999 urging ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Read the article Obama or McCain Can Finish Journey to Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
or read an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer dated July 21st, 2008
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