U.s. Standards for Protecting Weapons-usable Fissile Material Compared to International Standards
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George Bunn, the first general counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, served on the U.S. delegation that negotiated the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and later became a U.S. ambassador to the Geneva disarmament conference. He is now working on nuclear nonproliferation problems as a consulting professor at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999