Viewed by experts as being on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons, Argentina and Brazil have recently taken steps to assure each other their nuclear programs are entirely peaceful. This reports on a 1989 conference that anticipated these events and explored the approaches being taken today.

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Participants at the conference on Latin American nuclear co-operation - new prospects and challenges; goals of Argentine-Brazilian nuclear co-operation, J.Carasales, et al; ; industrial and economic benefits of Latin American nuclear co-operation, F.Henning, et al; models for a bilateral confidence-building regime, W.Higinbotham, et al; nuclear submarines and their implications for weapons proliferation, M.Miller, et al; linkages between vertical and horizontal non-proliferation, M.G.Bustillo, et al; global significance of a bilateral arrangement between Argentina and Brazil, R.G.Moritan, et al; nuclear co-operation in the context of the programme for Argentine/Brazilian integration and co-operation, Monica Hirst and Hector Eduardo Bocco.