The Iaea & Safeguards Quiz

The End of the Cold War

The Discovery of Iraq’s clandestine weapon program in 1991

North Korea’s nuclear weapon test

IAEA policy-making organs

United Nations General Assembly

Individual member states of the IAEA

The IAEA has more funds and staff than an international organization needs

The IAEA has enough resources to meet not only the current, but also future challenges

The IAEA might face important resource deficits in the future

Information obtained from open-sources and provided by third parties

Information provided by states and information derived from in-field verification activities

Intelligence collection and covert operation through IAEA operatives

Security, Safety, and Intelligence

Safeguards, Enforcement, and Science Cooperation

Safeguards, Safety, and Science &Technology

Additional, Comprehensive, and Voluntary Safeguards

Comprehensive, Item Specific, and Voluntary Offer Safeguards

Mandatory, Comprehensive, and Additional Safeguards

All states with nuclear programs

Non-nuclear weapon state parties to the NPT

Nuclear weapon state parties to the NPT

To detect the diversion of nuclear material to other states

To prevent nuclear weapon states from developing new weapons

To test safeguards methods and to establish confidence building measures

Article 39 of the UN Charter

Article III.A.5 of the IAEA Statute

Article III of the NPT

Examining facility records and comparing them with reports submitted by the state

Accountancy of all centrifuges within a facility

Taking environmental samples for analysis in Vienna

Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” address

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s “Israel must be wiped off the map” address

President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” address

To detect the use of nuclear material in weapons

To verify that a state’s declared nuclear material is not diverted to nuclear weapons

To detect clandestine nuclear weapon programs

To provide credible assurance of the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities

To detect the use of nuclear weapons

To provide the Agency with stronger enforcement mechanisms

Proliferators will build dedicated facilities for nuclear weapons production

Proliferators will buy nuclear technology and fissile materials from other states or international networks

Proliferators will divert materials from declared civilian facilities

States with little or no nuclear material or nuclear activities

States with nuclear material, but no weapons programs

States with declared nuclear material above 20kg of HEU

Nuclear weapons have to be kept safe all the time

A major nuclear incident in one country would have major implications far beyond the area where it takes place

Nuclear power plants are expensive and a nuclear accident would cause important financial losses

Ensure the safety and the security of nuclear power plants around the globe

Promotion of the peaceful use of nuclear energy and early detection of diversion of nuclear materials from peaceful purposes

Detect clandestine nuclear weapons programs all over the world and help countries develop their nuclear infrastructure

Nuclear weapon states parties to the NPT

Nuclear weapon states outside of the NPT

North Korea