And nuclear experts believe any sign Japan is expanding its ability to produce weapons-usable fissile materials will likely be matched by Beijing.
He could have it earlier if he is able to obtain fissile materials on the outside market, which is possible-difficult but possible.
It seeks a universal ban on fissile materials even though most Russian nuclear power plants generate such potentially deadly stuff as a by-product.
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Last week, the White House scored a breakthrough on a long-stalled international treaty banning all production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons world-wide.
Critically, the second phase would depend on universal acceptance of a comprehensive verification and enforcement system accompanied by tighter controls on fissile materials produced by civil-nuclear programmes.
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And, while we do that, we will also continue our efforts to negotiate a ban on the production of fissile materials that can be used in nuclear weapons.
Iran has no current means of weaponizing its fissile materials.
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Indeed, the description of this legislation by its advocates as a "fissile materials cutoff, " seems closer to the truth than do their assurances that the bill will not imperil related SNM activities.
Though Iran is playing down the significance of its experiments, arguing that they only produced tiny quantities of fissile materials, they show that the country has mastered some of the most important stages in nuclear bomb-making.
CTBT, a readiness to halt the production of fissile materials for bomb-making, restraint in the numbers of warheads and missiles India will deploy, tightened export controls on sensitive technology, and improved relations between India and Pakistan.
This involves finding ways to let inspectors snoop about places like AWE and other sites where fissile materials from both dismantled weapons and active ones are present, without inadvertently spreading the knowledge of how to build a bomb.
Lugar (R-Ind.), who is on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Nunn pushed through a dubious Senate a bill that authorized cooperation with Russia on nuclear weapons and fissile materials and some kind of welfare for Russian nuclear scientists.
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Then the Bush administration said it wouldn't accept any verification procedures in any fissile-materials treaty.
Then, last week, the administration jumped on an Algerian proposal to accompany fissile-materials negotiations with informal discussions on space and disarmament.
Multicountry negotiations on a fissile-materials ban stalled more than a decade ago.
First, under the Clinton administration, some countries demanded that fissile-materials negotiations include formal talks on nuclear disarmament and a ban on weapons in space.
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