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Negotiating Nuclear Cooperation Agreements

IN THIS ISSUE: Negotiating nuclear cooperation agreements, Iran: preventing war by making it credible, contemplating a third nuclear test in North Korea, Lugar visits Moscow to press for renewal of nuclear pact, India's first nuclear submarine set for trials, US General asks cut in nuclear stockpile.

Published on August 7, 2012
 

Negotiating Nuclear Cooperation Agreements

Mark Hibbs | Carnegie Nuclear Energy Brief

Steven Chu

The United States is currently negotiating bilateral agreements for peaceful nuclear cooperation under Section 123 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act—so-called 123 agreements—with Jordan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Vietnam. At some point—thus far no decision has been taken when—the United States will begin a fifth such negotiation, with Taiwan.

Although the Atomic Energy Act establishes criteria that 123 agreements must meet in order to conform to U.S. law without special Congressional consideration, for all of these negotiations to succeed the language and terms written into the five agreements will have to differ quite significantly. Why? Because the interest calculus and leverage balance of the two parties in each case won’t be the same.  Full Article



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