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CIA Reading Room 0001246283: WEEKLY SUMMARY

APPROVED FOR RELEASED DATE: 03-02-2010 No. 0034174 23 August 1974 ALTERNATIVES TO NON-PROLIFERATION A second session of the committee preparing for next year's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference will begin in Geneva next week. The US views the conference as a means of attracting more adherents to the treaty and otherwise strengthening it. The non-proliferation system established by the 1968 treaty is being increas- ingly challenged, however. The Indian nuclear explosion on May 18 provided the catalyst for a number of countries to re-examine their nuclear policies. More im- portantly, t…