Challenges of Fissile Material Control

Overview

By David Albright and Kevin O'Neill (eds.)

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. Note: All files below are in Adobe Acrobat Format.

Table of Contents

• 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