Nonalignment and a Test Ban Agreement

treaty. If an agreement is to be signed, it obviously must meet the minimum requirements of the majority of existing nuclear powers-all of which at present are securely aligned in the Cold War. Yet if such a treaty is signed, the nonaligned states will have played a part. The role of these states is the theme of this paper. Nonalignment is still a live political option in today's world, even though it is once again on the defensive with the Chinese incursions into that former bastion of nonalignment, India. Nonalignment is the desire of a state (or a people within a state) to want to end the Cold War, not side in it, not win it. Some thirty or forty states are nonaligned today. The best enumeration are those 25 states which attended the Belgrade Conference of the heads of state of non

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