Michael Krepon op-ed in Arms Control Wonk on the US and the CTBT

In rapid succession, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened its first Hearing on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in seventeen years, and Senator Marco Rubio and 32 Republican colleagues made public a letter to President Barack Obama opposing the administration’s UN Security Council resolution and a companion P-5 statement reaffirming the CTBT. Senator Rubio & Co. threatened retaliation by denying U.S. funding for the Treaty Organization’s International Monitoring System. Then, Kim Jong Un weighed in with another nuclear test explosion.

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