THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2008
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• Publication Date: October 14, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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the spread of
Financial Times 10/14/82
nuclear weapons
THE WFSTERN nuclear powers
have never had an easy task in
trvinp to stop other countries
obtaining the nuclear weapons
which they themselves possess.
The task has now been made
harder by the recent dispate'
in the International Atomic
Energy Agency. This is the
main body responsible for
operating the system to check
that countries put r.urjear tech-
nology to peaceful use. The U.S.
and other Western countries
walked out of the agency's
an"ual enrferonee when it
void :n ( dirt;- l.:r:4c?1 from the
work of the conference.
Proliferation Treaty'',, (NP?),
followed with unclear was=si
states agreeing to work
disarmament while non-suoaar
states promised not to ac to
nuclear weappus. ",Lin. So
Sagiee Union and U.B. sib
the, treaty, but France, Cbiaa
arid India have not. Finally, the
main .Western nuclear suppliers
have agreed to block t>arpplias
of goods and technology to non.
signatories of the NPT.
Experience has-. shown the
faults in this system but has
also underlined the absence of
any alternative. Instead the
need is to strengthen the
rewards and perialt
;es MUM it
ensure that the safeguards iuvrohves. Countries wtriah sWn
operated by the IAEA remain the NPT and abide by IAEA
effective while at the same time safeguards should know they
reducing its participation is con then count on trail aid
other activities of the UN bod~-. reltlab?e supplies of tosy
Some ofricia.s have gone as far for peaceful purposes~t the
as saying they do not excludg . oorNlaty of this is that the salts
U.S. withdrawal from its work- guards themselves muot be
though this seems unlikely. The adequate, and seen to be atR.
U.S. complaint is *out the
intrusion of politics into the Safe
agency: yet the protest vote ..
principles on which~IAEA
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had
their national secta_ itv wr~s at or tea' overs~te#'~ bet. f
risk, had bombed -a m-Yea PrAt^eeaenta are nlieQila[ Ifts-
rom
reac or in Ira et ' e Ira i inspection staff are d
reactor was su test to
saf~e~~!u~arils, whereas iii Israel
itselfthe vernment does not
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1AEA
ins ecUOn
facil_iriPs pntenyia v epria]a of
re nifi ng nuclear explosive.
The rase is thus fundamental
rn tht. problem of how to reduce
the risk of a multi-nuclear
world where terrorists as well
ac state- could present an awe-
some threat In international
peach.
Peaceful
In some ways efforts to reduce
this risk have been relatively
successful. Two decades ago few
people were predicting that the
nuclear weapons club would
today have only five clear
members-Britain. China,
the spread of nucle weapons.
Since 1957 it has b r-11 nced the
offer of access nuclear
The U.S. is now attempting to
-while the tecbniquea'-of i e-
ti um v vst be cons 'antjy gated
t'Cp VP with the pewnnaf
methods in which fuel
can be
diverted to weapons. A sgcond
major necessity is to extend the
safeguards regime to all si tn*R.
cant nuclear facilities in the
entyntties concerned.
Any hope of movement on
this last point depends on a
m
uch clearer message coming
from
themselves There is a need for
touRber export controls affect.
11`17 all significant new nuclear
supplies to countries not accept.
in" full-scope safeguards.
l one hripful step to improve
But the fundamental 2MbjrM is
re, acing the oca
whIC111 feed the a etite for
wen nos a major countries
should use sir in uen to
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menus especially in
areaa
Tension. One such model is the
Latin .American Tlateloho
azrerrnent. . T leg. most u ent
need for this is in e Middle
Eas and the U.S.-In particular I
9 old ensure that its agenda
for peace also includes the
isue of nuclear proliferation.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,1982
Starr optimistic on arms talks
HELSINKI - The chief U.S. delegate to the Vienna
talks on mutual and balanced force reductions in
centeral Europe said yesterday they could prove
fruitful soon if the Soviet side matches a recent
important concession by the West.
Ambassador Richard Starr said the Western coun-
tries presented a draft treaty for the first time
shortly before the talks adjourned in July.
CONT. FROM PAGE 1
"One is deterrence, and the other
is to push just as hard as you can for
major arms reductions-not arms
limitation formulae that allow them
to expand, which is what's happen-
ing now and what has been happen-
ing all through the years .... Noth-
ing slowed them down during the 20
years period that is just closing.
'Mr. Brezhnev referred a number
of times to detente and all of that,
but all through detente they did
enormous expansion year after year
on every type of weapons systems,
and they're continuing to do it. So
his poll, ', his speech doesn't an-
nounce any new policy. His speech
announces a continuation of what
they've been doing for 20 years."
Voters in Arizona, California,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana,
New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon
and Rhode Island will decide Tues-
day whether to urge- Reagan to start
talks with the Soviet Union on a mu-
tual freeze of the manufacture and
deployment of nuclear weapons.
Resolutions directing mayors to
demand a freeze are on the ballot in
30 cities and counties, including the
District of Columbia, Chicago, Den-
ver, Miami, Philadelphia and Reno.
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