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Article: U.N. effort to control nuclear materials is encouraging
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2009
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Attempts to control or reverse nuclear proliferation come in two
flavors: Either one tries to control nuclear material (uranium,
centrifuges, superfast switches) or one tries to control nuclear
information (blueprints, schematics, scientific expertise). For most
of the last half of a century, the world has shunned the material
approach in favor of controlling information. But information is
extremely difficult to contain, as is made clear by the growing
number of countries that have acquired nuclear weapons in the
decades since the United States made the first atomic bomb, from the
Soviet Union in 1949 to North Korea in 2006.
The United Nations started out with a materials-centric approach. ...