|
Category |
Grade |
|
I) Ending the production
of fissile material for nuclear weapons |
C |
|
a) Unilateral initiatives
by the five acknowledged nuclear weapon states to end the production
of fissile materials for weapons |
A- |
|
b) Ending the production
in other states |
D |
|
c) Obtaining a Fissile
Material Cutoff Treaty |
B- |
|
|
|
II) Protecting and
reducing the military stocks of fissile materials in the nuclear
weapon states |
C |
|
a) Declaring military
stocks to be excess |
C- |
|
b) Placing excess military
stocks under international safeguards or verification |
B |
|
c) Disposing of excess
HEU |
B- |
|
d) Disposing of excess
plutonium |
D+ |
|
e) Establishing verifiable
warhead dismantlement |
C- |
|
|
|
III) Protecting fissile
materials from theft |
C+ |
|
a) Improving protection
and accounting systems in the Former Soviet Union |
D+ |
|
b) Improving physical
protection world-wide |
B+ |
|
|
|
IV) Creating inventory
transparency |
C+ |
|
a) Military stocks |
D+ |
|
b) Civil stocks |
B+ |
|
|
|
V) Ending the proliferation
of nuclear weapons |
C+ |
|
a) Strengthened IAEA
safeguards |
A- |
|
b) Working towards NPT
universality and nuclear-weapon-free zones |
B- |
|
c) Dealing with violators
of international non-proliferation commitments or inspections |
D |
|
d) Improving export
controls |
C+ |
|
|
|
VI) Reducing the
threat posed by civil stocks of fissile material |
C- |
|
a) Minimizing stocks
of separated civil plutonium |
D+ |
|
b) Eliminating civil
HEU |
C |
|
|
|
VII) Establishing
acceptable nuclear waste repositories |
F |
|
|
|
Overall Grade of
all Categories: |
C |