ISIS Reports

1999 Scorecard on Fissile Material Controls

January 1, 2000

Category	Grade
I) Ending the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons	C
a) Unilateral initiatives by the five acknowledged nuclear weapon states to end the production of fissile materials for weapons	A-
b) Ending the production in other states	D
c) Obtaining a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty	B-

II) Protecting and reducing the military stocks of fissile materials in the nuclear weapon states	C
a) Declaring military stocks to be excess	C-
b) Placing excess military stocks under international safeguards or verification	B
c) Disposing of excess HEU	B-
d) Disposing of excess plutonium	D+
e) Establishing verifiable warhead dismantlement	C-

III) Protecting fissile materials from theft	C+
a) Improving protection and accounting systems in the Former Soviet Union	D+
b) Improving physical protection world-wide	B+

IV) Creating inventory transparency	C+
a) Military stocks	D+
b) Civil stocks	B+

V) Ending the proliferation of nuclear weapons	C+
a) Strengthened IAEA safeguards	A-
b) Working towards NPT universality and nuclear-weapon-free zones	B-
c) Dealing with violators of international non-proliferation commitments or inspections	D
d) Improving export controls	C+

VI) Reducing the threat posed by civil stocks of fissile material	C-
a) Minimizing stocks of separated civil plutonium	D+
b) Eliminating civil HEU	C

VII) Establishing acceptable nuclear waste repositories	F

Overall Grade of all Categories:	C