Published in March 1999, The Challenges of Fissile Material Control reviews U.S. and international efforts to broaden and strengthen international controls on nuclear weapons-usable materials.
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill (eds.), The Challenges of Fissile Material Control, (Washington, DC: Institute for Science and International Security Press, 1999). ISBN 0-9669467-0-7, LCCN 98-75828, Copyright 1999, Institute for Science and International Security. Sorry, we are out of stock with this item. It is available for download, however.
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Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Glossary
Acronyms Appearing in the
Text
Introduction
Chapter 1 -- Making
the Grade? International Fissile Material Control Efforts--David
Albright
Chapter 2 -- Policies
on Fissile Materials: The Cutoff Treaty and Existing Stocks--William
Walker
Chapter 3 -- Status
Report on Fissile Materials: Paths to Deep Reductions and Nuclear
Disarmament--Kevin O'Neill
Chapter 4 -- The Risk
of Theft: Protecting Fissile Materials in the Former Soviet Union--Kevin
O'Neill
Chapter 5 -- Troubles Tomorrow?
Separated Neptunium 237 and Americium--David Albright and
Lauren Barbour
Appendix 1: Fissile Material
Cutoff Treaty: A Chronology--Lauren Barbour
Appendix 2: Report of Ambassador
Gerald E. Shannon of Canada on consultations on the most appropriate
arrangement to negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissile
material for nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices
Appendix 3: Draft Decision
on the establishment of an ad hoc committee under item 1 of the
agenda entitled "Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear
disarmament"
Appendix 4: Efforts
to Place Excess Fissile Materials Under International Controls
Appendix 5: U.S.,
Russian Military Stocks of Highly Enriched Uranium
Press Release announcing the release of the report.
ISIS Fact Sheet summarizing the main conclusions of the report.