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IAEA Chief Urges Multinational Nuclear Oversight
Nuclear proliferation can best be blocked through multinational oversight of atomic technology, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 1). “We cannot afford to have every country be sitting on an enrichment factory,” he said during a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Such technology could give countries the ability to develop atomic weapons in a period of months, he said. ElBaradei also said military action should only be taken once diplomacy has completely failed to enforce countries’ obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. “Clearly we need to use every possible means that we have before we think of other alternatives. Are we saying, never, never will we use force? No, but we could only talk about using force when it is the last resort, and it is the best resort,” he said. He added, however, that treaty membership was unlikely to increase in the near future. “We bagged as many as we can. I don’t think these three [India, Pakistan and Israel] are going to come to the NPT through the normal route,” he said (Theo Emery, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Nov. 3).
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