measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament. Have these undertakings been fulfilled? An important agreement, the INF Treaty, was reached between the Soviet Union and the United States a few years ago. An agreement on reducing their arsenals of strategic weapons will hopefully emerge soon. Sweden welcomes these efforts. But, as was pointed out by the Director-General of IAEA here in Geneva not long ago, there are more nuclear warheads in the world today than in 1968, when the NPT and its article VI were agreed. All avenues should be explored in order to find new ways to reduce the nuclear weapon arsenals. In parallel, one measure of both practical and symbolic significance of the highest order would be the establishment here in the CD of an ad hoe committee on a comprehensive test-ban treaty. Sweden has further proposed to the General Conference of IAEA that all transfers of weapons material to peaceful use should be verified through the application of Agency safeguards. If the nuclear material cannot immediately be used within peaceful programmes, the Agency's statute provides an instrument for storage under its custody. CD/PV.550 11 (Mr. Hyltenius, Sweden) Similarly, all production of new nuclear materials for military purposes must cease. This idea is not new. From 1956 to 1969 the United States repeatedly proposed such a "cut-off". A United Nations General Assembly resolution on this issue sponsored by a large number of States has been adopted with an overwhelming majority for many years. If an undertaking to discontinue such production is to be credible it must be verifiable through inspection and constant surveillance. A pre-condition for a verifiable "cut-off" is a separation in the nuclear-weapon States of peaceful and military nuclear activities, whereby IAEA safeguards should be applied to all 
**Analysis**
The text discusses measures related to the cessation of the nuclear arms race, nuclear disarmament, and the prevention of nuclear proliferation. It highlights the importance of verifying the reduction of nuclear weapon arsenals and the cessation of production of new nuclear materials for military purposes. The text also mentions the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its role in ensuring the peaceful use of nuclear materials.

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International relations, Science and technology