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      "id": 305678,
      "date": "2005-06-28",
      "retrieved": "2016-04-07T19:40:14.221029",
      "title": "Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Pro and Con",
      "summary": "The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) would ban all nuclear explosions. President\nClinton\nsigned it in 1996 and transmitted it to the Senate in 1997. The Senate rejected it in 1999. To enter\ninto force, 44 named nations, including the United States, must ratify the treaty. The Bush\nAdministration opposes ratification but has maintained a moratorium on nuclear testing begun in\n1992. This report presents pros and cons of key arguments: the treaty's implications for nuclear\nnonproliferation, for maintaining and developing nuclear weapons, for the value of nuclear weapons,\nand for maintaining U.S. nuclear advantage; monitoring issues; and potential consequences of\nresuming testing. This report will be updated periodically. See also CRS Issue Brief IB92099,\n Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,  and CRS Report 97-1007 F,\n Nuclear Testing\nand Comprehensive Test Ban: Chronology Starting September 1992.",
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  "topics": [
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "National Defense"
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