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Nuclear safeguards: 1. The IAEA program

NOV 01, 1969
Nations without nuclear weapons agree, if they sign the nonproliferation treaty, not to acquire them. The International Atomic Energy Agency is preparing to extend its existing procedures to verify compliance with the treaty.
Bernard W. Sharpe

WITH THE SIGNING of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the International Atomic Energy Agency will become responsible for ensuring that nations without nuclear weapons do not acquire them. The IAEA Department of Safeguards and Inspection has for many years been making inspections to ensure that nuclear material being used for peaceful purposes is not diverted for weapons production.

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Bernard W. Sharpe, IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency).

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