Blix Calls on United States to Ratify CTBT

Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix on Saturday called on the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, according the Associated Press (see GSN, Sept. 24).

“U.S. ratification of a comprehensive test ban treaty would be likely to have a positive domino effect on China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Israel,” Blix said. “It would make the development of new types of nuclear weapons much more difficult.”

Blix also said that Iran and North Korea would need to be given economic incentives and “guarantees about security against attacks from outside” to abandon their nuclear programs.

The nuclear standoffs in both countries should be resolved through diplomacy, Blix said.

“The war that was waged in Iraq is not a model that many want to see followed,” he said (Nirmala George, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Nov. 6).

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