The global nuclear nonproliferation regime can be likened quite aptly to an architectural structure designed to draw strength from mutually reinforcing elements.
Safeguards help to protect and warn against any effort to divert nuclear material for illicit use.
Similarly, sound conditions of supply help to ensure that nuclear commerce does not contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, regional nuclear weapon free zones help to fortify a larger NPT regime of global scope. In gathering to review the status of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, we can identify much valuable progress in strengthening several key elements of the global regime that surrounds it. In the IAEA safeguards system, the past five years have seen major, indeed historic improvements. In June 1995 members of the Agency decided to adopt new measures to be implemented under authority already in existence.