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IPFM Releases Draft International Treaty to Ban Production of Fissile Materials For Use in Nuclear Weapons: Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty
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The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) has released for discussion a draft Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty, or FM(C)T. The text of the draft Treaty (available here) is accompanied by a detailed article by article explanation of the basic obligations, verification, implementation and organizational issues associated with the treaty.
Fissile Materials. A neutron is absorbed by the nucleus of a fissile atom (uranium-235 in this example), which splits into two fission products (barium and krypton in this example). The fission of one kilogram of uranium-235 or plutonium releases an energy equivalent to 18,000 tons of high explosive (TNT).
The FM(C)T would ban the production for use in nuclear weapons of fissile materials, the materials that undergo the nuclear fission chain reaction. It has long been seen as essential for strengthening the nonproliferation regime, reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism, and to achieving nuclear disarmament (read more).
In December 1993, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the negotiation of "nondiscriminatory, multilateral, and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices." At the Review Conference of the Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2000, it was agreed that negotiations should commence immediately in the multilateral Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva, "taking into consideration both nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation objectives... with a view to their conclusion within five years." Notwithstanding, the CD has, for various reasons, not formally launched negotiations on a treaty.
The IPFM draft Treaty aims to meet the conditions laid out by the UN General Assembly and agreed to by the Conference on Disarmament. It seeks to meet both nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation objectives by proposing to put under international safeguards pre-existing stocks of fissile materials that are for civilian use, in excess weapons and assigned to naval fuel.
The Panel hopes that this draft may assist future negotiations of this long overdue Treaty.
The IPFM draft FM(C)T was released on January 29, 2009, during an event organized by the Middle Powers Initiative at Rathaus Schöneberg in Berlin. Photo: (c) Axel Mauruszat, 2006
On January 29, 2009, Frank von Hippel, IPFM co-chair, presented elements of the draft for discussion at the Berlin meeting of the Article VI Forum, organized by the Middle Powers Initiative. The presentation, which is available here, focused on questions of the scope & verification of a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty.
Future presentations of the draft treaty are planned for the NPT Prepcom in New York in May 2009.
For more details of the verification of a FM(C)T see Global Fissile Material Report 2008.
Fissile Materials. A neutron is absorbed by the nucleus of a fissile atom (uranium-235 in this example), which splits into two fission products (barium and krypton in this example). The fission of one kilogram of uranium-235 or plutonium releases an energy equivalent to 18,000 tons of high explosive (TNT).
The FM(C)T would ban the production for use in nuclear weapons of fissile materials, the materials that undergo the nuclear fission chain reaction. It has long been seen as essential for strengthening the nonproliferation regime, reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism, and to achieving nuclear disarmament (read more).
In December 1993, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the negotiation of "nondiscriminatory, multilateral, and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices." At the Review Conference of the Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2000, it was agreed that negotiations should commence immediately in the multilateral Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva, "taking into consideration both nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation objectives... with a view to their conclusion within five years." Notwithstanding, the CD has, for various reasons, not formally launched negotiations on a treaty.
The IPFM draft Treaty aims to meet the conditions laid out by the UN General Assembly and agreed to by the Conference on Disarmament. It seeks to meet both nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation objectives by proposing to put under international safeguards pre-existing stocks of fissile materials that are for civilian use, in excess weapons and assigned to naval fuel.
The Panel hopes that this draft may assist future negotiations of this long overdue Treaty.
The IPFM draft FM(C)T was released on January 29, 2009, during an event organized by the Middle Powers Initiative at Rathaus Schöneberg in Berlin. Photo: (c) Axel Mauruszat, 2006
On January 29, 2009, Frank von Hippel, IPFM co-chair, presented elements of the draft for discussion at the Berlin meeting of the Article VI Forum, organized by the Middle Powers Initiative. The presentation, which is available here, focused on questions of the scope & verification of a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty.
Future presentations of the draft treaty are planned for the NPT Prepcom in New York in May 2009.
For more details of the verification of a FM(C)T see Global Fissile Material Report 2008.
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