ABSTRACT
The needs of the Third World for technical help in medicine, education, food and agriculture and for speeding up the process of industrialization are immense. This is one reason why the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has encountered so little resistance when other United Nations agencies have perceived it to trespass jurisdictionally into their domains. In short, the IAEA is unlikely for the foreseeable future to become a major source of assistance to the Third World. Only Australia, Canada, Sweden and the Unites States of America require full-scope safeguards as a condition of supply to non-nuclear weapon states. It is of course essential that in the normal course of relations and diplomatic contacts, the leading powers and other Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) countries should constantly encourage ratification of the NPT, full-scope IAEA safeguards and acceptance of other measures to increase the effectiveness of safeguards.
