Worried about Iran? Ratify Test Ban Treaty

Greg Thielmann, senior fellow at the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, outlines his strategy for using the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to respond to the Iranian nuclear threat. “A global test ban is particularly damaging to Iran's nuclear weapons option because of the way Tehran has presented its nuclear program to the Iranian people and the world. Unlike North Korea, which explicitly claims the need for nuclear weapons and has twice tested nuclear devices, Iran officially declares neither interest in nor any justification for such "un-Islamic" weapons,” writes Thielmann.