ABSTRACT
In the Nonproliferation Treaty each nonnuclear-weapon state party to the treaty undertakes to accept safeguards as set forth in an agreement to be negotiated and concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Committee on Assurance of Supply and the discussions concerning International Plutonium Storage are further examples of how years are needed to make even tiny, so far insignificant, progress. Moreover, member states of the agency must be ready to make the IAEA useful to all of its members, even those that may not be able to accept nuclear power for the solution of their energy problems for a long time. The activities started in this way later got support from the technical cooperation program of the IAEA, and have resulted in the generation of a genuine interest in both pure and applied science and the training of a sizeable body of scientists.
