Playing the Nuclear Game: Pakistan and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Arms Control Association

Playing the Nuclear Game: Pakistan and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty Mian and A.H. Nayyar, Arms Control Association

Since May 2009, Pakistan, largely alone, has blocked the start of international talks on a fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT) at the 65-member Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva. The treaty would ban the production of fissile materials for weapons purposes; fissile materials, namely plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU), are the key ingredients in nuclear weapons. Pakistan has prevented these negotiations despite having accepted last year a CD program of work that included an FMCT.
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