{"id":4455,"date":"2010-02-18T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:42:30","slug":"pushing-for-nuke-test-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/18\/pushing-for-nuke-test-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing for nuke test ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4456\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/nuke-blast-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"nuke blast\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The Obama administration is <a title=\"pushing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/18\/AR2010021803272.html?hpid=moreheadlines\" target=\"_blank\">pushing <\/a>Congress to ratify the 1996 U.N. nuclear test-ban treaty and increase appropriations\u00a0to monitor America&#8217;s aging stockpile without testing.\u00a0 <a title=\"Philip O'Neill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eapdlaw.com\/professionals\/detail.aspx?id=70001046-2720-4aaf-8303-5d2256ba3c8f\" target=\"_blank\">Philip O&#8217;Neill<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Verification in an Age of Insecurity<\/em>&#8221; who teaches national security law at the BU School of Law, says extra monitoring is good but addresses only part of the nation&#8217;s verification dilemma.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There remain issues pertaining to our ability to monitor evasion through low yield tests; interpretation of what activity is properly constrained; the adequacy of the policing mechanism; the requisite certainty now needed in verification; and what standard to apply through the ratification process itself. Each is fair game in the renewed consideration of the comprehensive test ban.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Philip O&#8217;Neill, 617-951-2253, <a href=\"mailto:poneill@eapdlaw.com\">poneill@eapdlaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is pushing Congress to ratify the 1996 U.N. nuclear test-ban treaty and increase appropriations\u00a0to monitor America&#8217;s aging stockpile without testing.\u00a0 Philip O&#8217;Neill, author of &#8220;Verification in an Age of Insecurity&#8221; who teaches national security law at the BU School of Law, says extra monitoring is good but addresses only part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2340,2339,2338,1718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/7879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}