Introduction: negotiating the creation and implementation of an international regime I. William Zartman and Mordechai Melamud; Part I. Negotiation: 1. Banning nuclear explosive testing: the historical context and steps to implement the CTBT Pierce S. Corden; 2. Negotiating the nuclear test ban: the verification debate and its effects on the negotiation process P. Terrence Hopmann; 3. The negotiating process: a view from the Chair Jaap Ramaker; 4. The importance of coupling in the limited test ban negotiations Fen Osler Hampson; 5. The role of civil society in negotiating the CTBT Rebecca Johnson; 6. CTBT negotiations: formulas and trade-offs I. William Zartman and Julia Lendorfer; 7. The US debate Chris McIntosh; 8. The Russian position on the CTBT Alexey Fenenko; 9. Explaining why India opted out of the CTBT Ulrika Möller; Part II. Verification: 10. Nuclear test ban verification: from negotiations to entry into force Hein Haak; 11. Enhancing the legal status of the CTBTO pending CTBT entry into force Franz Cede; 12. Can a monitoring and verification system be designed by negotiation? Nicholas Kyriakopoulos; 13. On-site inspections in the framework of CTBT verification: errors of the first and second kind Rudolf Avenhaus and Thomas Kriege; 14. Preparations for negotiations on the noble gas categorisation scheme Martin Kalinowski and Simon Hebel; 15. The case of Arcania: structure and actors in point of entry (POE) negotiations Ariel Macaspac Penetrante; 16. On-site inspection as a progression of negotiation cases Mordechai (Moti) Melamud; 17. Some preliminary thoughts on framing a training programme on negotiation for potential inspection teams P. Terrence Hopman; 18. Putting OSI on the table Paul Meerts and Mordechai Melamud; 19. Lessons from the CTBTO negotiation processes Mordechai (Moti) Melamud, Paul Meerts and I. William Zartman.