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FIVE YEARS AFTER INDIA'S FIRST NUCLEAR EXPLOSION, THIS ESSAY PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROLIFERATION PICTURE FOR THE END OF THE 1970S, WITH A VIEW TO THE STATE OF NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1980S. NOTING POSITIVE STEPS MADE TOWARD NONPROLIFERATION IN THE LATE 70S, THE AUTHOR EXAMINES "HOTSPOT" AREAS SUCH AS ASIA, THE MIDDLE-EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA.

In part of a colloquium titled "A Consensus on Missile Defence?" the author explores coordinated security management, which would provide reassurance & predictability while addressing Russia's wish to be treated as a great power. Coordinated security management combines agreed understandings, information exchanges, confidence building & other cooperative & complementary measures, joint military planning, & high-level consultations. Initially, this would involve the US & Russia with other countries joining at a later date. Further, it could even help manage the US-People's Republic of China situation regarding US deployment of limited missile defenses. The potential for cooperative security management depends on the envisioned long-term political relationship between Russia, China & the US. Adapted from the source document.

Discusses reopening of negotiations at the Geneva-based UN Conference on Disarmament with regard to the drafting of a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) to end production of weapons-usable plutonium and high enriched uranium (HEU); focus on the main political issues that need to be resolved. Scope of a verification regime, how to deal with past production and existing stocks of fissile materials, and how to convince India, Israel, and Pakistan that an FMCT would be in their best interests.