IAEA safeguards and related activities

This chapter has been provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It deals primarily with safeguards and other activities of the Agency during 1979 and describes the situation existing as of the end of the year. It should be noted, however, that IAEA safeguards against the diversion of nuclear materials and other equipment or information for military and other prohibited activities have been evolving almost since the establishment of the Agency in 1956. Accordingly, the chapter also describes briefly the authority and methodology imvolved in the Agency’s functions.

Related Subject(s): Disarmament