ABSTRACT
If present trends continue, proposals for international management or control of plutonium and sensitive technologies are certain to be on the international agenda by the time of the second NPT Review Conference in the summer of 1980. There has been little prior discussion as to whether such arrangements are intended primarily to limit exports or legitimate them, supplant national authority or support it, promote equity of treatment among states party to the Treaty or reduce it. Given the fragmentation of present policies on plutonium use, fast breeder reactors, development and trade, there is unlikely to be any general consensus on political goals. New institutional solutions are therefore as likely to be a source of new conflict as a remedy for old ones, particularly if they formally acknowledge the emergence of a condominium of advanced technological states.
