Word: nuclear
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Rare indeed are the occasions when U.S. and Russian negotiators find themselves concurring on anything. So last week, when diplomats from the two countries agreed upon a draft treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the general enthusiasm was understandable. After five years of dickering, it was all too easy to overlook the fact that one vital article of the treaty had been left blank. The negotiators in Geneva simply agreed to resume arguing later about the inspection procedures that all along have been one of the major stumbling blocks...
...packaging that gift will not be easy. For one thing, it will require a skilled sales pitch to the 130 or so nuclear have-not nations...
Soviet draft prohibits nuclear powers who sign it from giving other countries either atomic weapons or "nuclear explosive devices" for blasting purposes. It assures the nonnuclear signers of their right to develop peaceful atomic power, but it calls upon them to avoid manufacturing nuclear weapons or acquiring them...
...countries which wants big power guarantees against nuclear blackmail in exchange for renouncing nukes is India, which worries openly about China's bomb. West Germany and Italy have strong reservations about the proposed inspection of nuclear-power reactors to assure that fuels are not diverted to weaponry. They want EURATOM, not the International Atomic Energy Agency,* to be their watchdog. They are worried that Communist nations in l.A.E.A. might take the opportunity to steal advanced industrial secrets. West Germany also vehemently opposes the absence of a time limit in the treaty. The Germans argue that it should be tried...
...nuclear haves, neither France nor China is likely to sign. And even the U.S. and Russia still have some reservations. They are not happy over the small nations' insistence that the reactors of the haves be open for inspection as well as those of the havenots. In short, the treaty still has troubles ahead...