Nonproliferation treaties

As of 1995, there were no nuclear fuel reprocessing plants operating in the United States. Other nuclear nations have constmcted second- or third-generation reprocessing faciUties. These nations have signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and the faciUties are under the purview of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 

In addition, under the Nonproliferation Treaty, which most larger nations have signed, the IAEA monitors plutonium from power reactors so as to detect covert diversion. 

The Nonproliferation Treaty and the international safeguards to support it failed, unfortunately, to stop new countries from getting possession of nuclear weapons. The effectiveness of political measures would be largely enhanced, if the processes of potential danger from the viewpoint of nuclear proliferation were phased out with development of the new nuclear technology. Such processes include the following ... 

Nuclear power for civil use is well established in India. Its civil nuclear strategy has been directed toward complete independence in the nuclear fuel cycle, necessary because it is excluded from the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) due to it acquiring nuclear weapons capability after 1970. 

Area 4 Piolifeiation resistance and physical protection (Nonproliferation Treaty) ... 

INDIA. India has a well-developed nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) and ballistic missile defense establishment. It is currently destroying a chemical weapon (CW) stockpile in accordance with its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention(CWC). India has conducted at least six tests of nuclear weapons and was estimated to possess 50 nuclear warheads as of 2006. India is not a party to the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). See also ATOMS FOR PEACE SMILING BUDDHA. 

March The accidental release of VX during an open-air chemical warfare (CW) test kills more than a thousand sheep in Skull Valley, east of Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. 1 July The Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Nonproliferation Treaty, NPT) is opened for signature. 

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