Administration Position
President Clinton's Remarks on Ratification
President Kennedy, who set a goal of putting a man on the moonby the late 1960s, was committed to using technology to unlockthe mysteries of the heaven. But President Kennedy was also concernedthat technology, if misused, literally could destroy life on Earth.So another goal he vigorously pursued was one first proposed byPresident Eisenhower, a treaty to ban for all time testing ofthe most destructive weapons ever devised — nuclear weapons.As a first step, President Kennedy negotiated a limited testban treaty to ban nuclear tests except those conducted underground.But for far too long nations failed to heed the call to ban…
