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Wed - Feb 17th, 2010
NEW IPFM RESEARCH REPORT: Unsuccessful "Fast Breeder" is no solution for long-term reactor waste disposal issues.
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Thu - Oct 29th, 2009
JUST RELEASED: Global Fissile Material Report 2009: A Path to Nuclear Disarmament
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Wed - Sep 9th, 2009
September 2009 draft of the IPFM Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty (including an article-by-article discussion)
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Thu - May 28th, 2009
IPFM Research Report #7: Consolidating Fissile Materials in Russia's Nuclear Complex, by Pavel Podvig
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Thu - Feb 19th, 2009
IPFM Research Report #6: The Safeguards at Reprocessing Plants under a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty, by Shirley Johnson
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Fri - Feb 13th, 2009
IPFM Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty
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Fri - Feb 13th, 2009
IPFM Releases Draft International Treaty to Ban Production of Fissile Materials For Use in Nuclear Weapons: Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty
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Sat - Oct 11th, 2008
Global Fissile Material Report 2008, Scope and Verification of a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty
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Wed - Oct 1st, 2008
Available for download: the IPFM briefing on Global Fissile Material Report 2008:
Scope and Verification of a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty, 52nd IAEA General Conference, Vienna, Austria
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Tue - Jul 8th, 2008
IPFM Research Report #5: The Legacy of Reprocessing in the United Kingdom, by Martin Forwood
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Thu - May 8th, 2008
IPFM Research Report #4: Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing in France, by Mycle Schneider and Yves Marignac
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Mon - May 5th, 2008
Available for download: the IPFM briefing on A Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty and Its Verification, United Nations Office at Geneva, Palais des Nations, 2008 NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting
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DOCUMENTS

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The Nonproliferation Treaty

The Nonproliferation Treaty (text version)
The 1968 agreement committing signatories which had then tested nuclear weapons (US, Russia, UK, France and China) to nuclear disarmament and all other signatory states to not acquire such weapons, and ensuring non-nuclear weapon states access to the peaceful use of nuclear technology through a system of inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency

	The Nonproliferation Treaty (PDF, 91 KB)

	The Thirteen Steps At the 2000 Review Conference of the NPT, thirteen practical steps for the systematic and progressive efforts to achieve complete disarmament were agreed to by all governments signed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Proposals for a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)

	United Nations General Assembly Resolution 48/75L, December 1993 Recommends the negotiation of a "non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices"

	Draft Text for an FMCT proposed by Tom Shea (PDF, 303 KB) November 2003

	Draft Text for an FMCT proposed by Greenpeace (PDF, 116 KB) Proposed Draft Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Materials for Nuclear Weapons and other Nuclear Explosive Devices, April 2004

	Draft Text for an FMCT proposed by the United States Tabled on May 18, 2006, in Geneva at the Conference on Disarmament, including a draft mandate to establish an Ad Hoc Committee to negotiate the treaty

	Draft Text for an FMCT proposed by IPFM September 2009 Revision

Documents of Historic Interest

	United Nations General Assembly Resolution UNGA/1 (Excerpts) 24 January 1946, Establishment of a Commission to Deal with the Problems Raised by the Discovery of Atomic Energy

	The 1946 Acheson-Lilienthal Report (PDF, 466 KB) A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy; prepared for the Secretary of State's Committee on Atomic Energy; by a Board of Consultants: C. I. Barnard, J. R. Oppenheimer, C. A. Thomas, H. A. Winne, and D. E. Lilienthal (Chairman)

	The 1953 Atoms for Peace Speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, New York City, December 8, 1953

	The 1957 Euratom Treaty (PDF, 4,6 MB) Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). Article I specifies that the Community seeks to create "the conditions necessary for the speedy development and growth of nuclear industries."

	United Nations General Assembly Resolution UNGA/1148 14 November 1957, Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments; conclusion of an international convention (treaty) on the reduction on armaments and the prohibition of atomic, hydrogen and other weapons of mass destruction.

	Soviet Proposal for Nuclear Disarmament Treaty (PDF, 90 KB) 19 June 1946, Draft International Convention to Prohibit the Production and Employment of Weapons Based on the Use of Atomic Energy for the Purpose of Mass Destruction.