UN General Assembly
1993

I have made non-proliferation one of our nation’s highest priorities. We intend to weave it more deeply into the fabric of all of our relationships with the world’s nations and institutions. We seek to build a world of increasing pressure for non-proliferation but increasingly open trade and technology for those States that live by accepted international rules. Today, let me describe several new policies that our Government will pursue to stem proliferation. We will pursue new steps to control the materials for nuclear weapons. Growing global stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium are raising the danger of nuclear terrorism for all nations. We will press for an international agreement that would ban production of these materials for weapons for ever. As we reduce our nuclear stockpiles, the United States has also begun negotiations towards a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing. This summer I declared that to facilitate those negotiations, our nation would suspend our testing if all other nuclear States would do the same. Today, in the face of disturbing signs, I renew my call on the nuclear