A comprehensive transparency regime for warheads and fissile materials

Article Abstract:

US-Russian attempts to limit nuclear forces have largely ignored the nuclear warheads, with arms control agreements concentrating on restricting the number of deployed delivery vehicles and their launchers. Arms control agreements have not included restrictions on stockpiles of fissile materials, and it will become more important in the future to complement limits on delivery vehicles, with warhead and fissile material stockpile restrictions. A comprehensive transparency regime is required to build confidence that agreed reductions are irreversible.

Analysis, Safety and security measures, Arms control, Nuclear weapons

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A step-by-step approach to a global fissile materials cutoff

Article Abstract:

The worldwide production of fissile materials continues because efforts to cut off production have failed since the first proposal by Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. Since then, the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland has made little progress. The five nuclear-weapon states agreed to conclude cutoff negotiations early during the 1995 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, but those talks were stalled by Pakistan. The best hope for a fissile materials cutoff is the gradual application of political pressure.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Nuclear nonproliferation

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CD convenes committee to work on fissile cutoff

Article Abstract:

The UN Conference on Disarmament will begin talks which would prohibit the manufacture of fissile materials to be used for the production of nuclear weapons. Among the concerns expressed by the 61 member-states were issues regarding a cutoff treaty, and the effect of such a treaty on inspection regimes, the prohibition of future production and verification procedures. On the matter of stockpiles, most non-aligned countries opined that a treaty which excluded stockpiles would be ineffective.

Management, Disarmament, Conference on Disarmament

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