The focus of attention in this book centres on the regional nuclear safeguards system implemented in Western Europe by EURATOM, the issues surrounding its establishement and the reasons to account for its so-far enduring character.

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Part 1 The "embryonic" phase: EURATOM and the establishment of the European Community; the United States, EURATOM and the early safeguards debate; EURATOM, the Soviet Union and military nuclear programmes; EURATOM, the United States and nuclear safeguards options; the concept of the EURATOM regional nuclear safeguards system. Part 2 The "fledgling" phase: the implementation of EURATOM safeguards during the research and early industrial period; EURATOM safeguards and the negotiation on the NPT. Part 3 The "transition" phase: the negotiation of the IAEA-EURATOM NPT Safeguards arrangements in Western Europe; the NPT safeguards system in Western Europe - INFCIRC/193 nad community regulation 3227/76. Part 4 The "mature" or "NPT" phase: the NPT safeguards picture complete - the EURATOM NWS "voluntary offers" and the question of additional member states; EURATOM nuclear safeguards and the international debate over nuclear export controls and physical security; the IAEA-EURATOM safeguards relationshop in practice - can the "compromise" or reionalism and universalism survive?