WEEKLY SUMMARY

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• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-00942
• Publication Date: November 9, 1967

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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
WEEKLY SUMMARY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE:
09-24-2008
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9 November 1967
No. 0315/67
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THE NONPROLIFERATION TREATY: THE NEXT PHASE
The North Atlantic Council
(NAC) has given the green light
to the US to negotiate a safe-
guards article for the treaty to
prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons (NPT), but protracted ne-
gotiations are still. in store be-
fore the treaty is ready for sign-
ing.
At the NAC meeting on 31 Oc-
tober, the allies agreed the US
should work out a safeguards ar-
ticle with the USSR which would
take into account the principles
drawn up by the EURATOM members,
excluding France. One of these
principles is that safeguards
shall apply only to the use of
natural uranium and fissionable
-material. Another is that EURATOM
itself shall have a role in nego-
tiating a ,safeguards arrangement
with the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) to cover
EURATOM's members. Finally, the
IAEA shall only verify, and not
duplicate,_.EURATOM's safeguards
system.
While the West Europeans have
been considering their position
on safeguards, a number of other
countries have raised problems
and have proposed amendments to
the treaty. Although their objec-
tions have focused mainly on the
treaty's discrimination between
states with nuclear weapons and
those without, other issues that
have been raised include the peace-
ful uses of nuclear energy, the
absence of disarmament obligations
for the nuclear powers, and secu-
rity assurances for nonnuclear
states.
Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, and
Rumania have proposed. amendments
that reflect these concerns.
The Mexican amendments would make
it a duty of nuclear states to
undertake disarmament measures
and to contribute to the develop-
ment of peaceful uses of nuclear
energy in nonnuclear countries.
Brazil wants a treaty that will
permit a nonnuclear nation to
conduct nuclear explosions for
peaceful purposes. Rumania's
amendments are in the same vein
and may have been put forth as
much to make a point of Bucha-
rest's independence of Moscow as
for any other purpose.
An Egyptian proposal would
have the nuclear states pledge
not to use nuclear weapons against
countries that have no nuclear
weapons deployed in their terri-
tory. India, reflecting its spe-
cial concern with China, wants
specific security assurances; to
meet these, the.US and USSR are
beginning negotiations on. an
agreement separate from the NPT,
possibly in the form of a UN res-
olution.
Given the numerous problems
still to be dealt with, it appears
unlikely that the Geneva disarma-
ment conference will be able to
present an agreed draft treaty
to the current session of the UN
General Assembly., The Geneva
group, however, could forward the
US-USSR draft along with the var-
ious amendments for preliminary
consideration by the assembly.
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