IPFM International Panel on Fissile Materials - Treaties and Official Documents

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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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Tue - Oct 9th, 2007
The Global Fissile Material Report 2007, available for download below.
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Tue - Oct 9th, 2007
IPFM BLOG: Tracking highly enriched uranium and plutonium, the key ingredients in nuclear weapons, and fostering global efforts to secure and eliminate these materials.
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Wed - Jan 17th, 2007
IPFM Research Report #3: Managing Spent Fuel in the United States: The Illogic of Reprocessing
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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


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.

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