International Safeguards in Nuclear Weapon States and a Look at the Future

This paper shall reveiw the framework for applying internationalsafeguards in the five nuclear weapon states and give an overviewof their implementation.It, shall then discuss some reasons for an evolution of thosestates and the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) commitmentsto apply its safeguards and suggest some ideas for theheightened but efficient involvement of the IAEA in those statesfully taking into account the specificities of those states within theState-level Approach.