International Atomic Energy Agency

"The United States knows that if the fearful trend of atomic military build-up can be reversed, this greatest of destructive forces can be developed into a great boon, for the benefit of all mankind. The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future. The capability, already proved, is here today. Who can doubt that, if the entire body of the world's scientists and engineers had adequate amounts of fissionable material with which to test and develop their ideas, this capability would rapidly be transformed into universal, efficient and economic usage?" (Eisenhower, 1953)

Among the agency's responsibilities would be to store and safeguard the material and to "devise methods" whereby it would be allocated to serve the "peaceful pursuits of mankind."

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4 The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Marshall Islands, Uzbekistan, and Yemen  1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina  1996 The Republic of Georgia  1997 Latvia, Malta, Republic of Moldova  1998 Burkina Faso, Benin   Since 1958, the IAEA has been involved in promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear energy through its technical cooperation program, which provides technical assistance to its member states by supplying equipment, expert services, and training that support the upgrading or establishment of nuclear techniques and facilities. Although the United States does not receive technical assistance, it has been the leading financial donor to IAEA's technical cooperation program. In 1959, the IAEA was formally headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with the principal policy-making organizations: the General Conference, composed of representatives of the 124 IAEA member states; its decision-making body, the 35-member Board of Governors; and a Secretariat headed by a Director General. The United States is a permanent member of IAEA's Board of Governors. In the early 1960s, IAEA established an inspection program based on a system of technical measures, referred to as safeguards, designed to detect the diversio
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