U.S. AND RUSSIA REACH NUCLEAR COOPERATION AGREEMENT.

Russia and the U.S. have reportedly agreed upon several practical steps to advance technical cooperation in meeting guidelines spelled out in the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The International Atomic Energy Agency announced that U.S. energy secretary Hazel O’Leary and Russian atomic energy minister Viktor Mikhailov, meeting in Vienna during the IAEA’s annual congress, had reached agreement on putting an unspecified amount of Russia’s fissile material under IAEA inspection. (Reuter, September 18)

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