Treaty Provisions
Implementation, Enforcement, and Verification
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty consists of a Preamble,17 articles, two annexes, and a Protocol. The Protocol describesverification procedures and contains two annexes. One annex liststhe 337 facilities comprising the International Monitoring System(IMS) and the other annex describes parameters for standard eventscreening by the International Data Centre (IDC). ScopeThe Preamble stresses the need for "continued systematicand progressive efforts to reduce nuclear weapons globally"with the ultimate goal of their elimination and of "generaland complete disarmament under strict and effective internationalcontrol." It recognizes that "the cessation of all nuclearweapon test explosions and all other nuclear explosions … constitutesan effective measure of…
