Strengthening the security of nuclear material. Physical protection

Together with its Member States IAEA has reinforced efforts in recent years to strengthen its activities in areas of physical protection, including reviewing and revising international standards for physical protection. On the organizational level, the IAEA has created an Office of Physical Protection and Material Security in the Department of Safeguards. Besides description the basic aim and activities in this field the paper includes the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials entered in force in 1987 and signed to date, by 64 States who became Parties to the Convention