Nuclear material accounting and control: Co-ordinating assistance to newly independent States

摘要

Nuclear trade and co-operation among States are essentially dependent upon effective and credible safeguards. The disintegration of the former Soviet Union has resulted, inter alia, in the emergence of a number of newly independent States (NIS). Many of them have nuclear programmes. However, the nuclear infrastructure on which those programmes once rested is no longer in place and needs to be reconstructed.