The Peaceful Atom and National Security

This presentation develops the relationship between the primary mission of the organization under DOE's Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs and the national and international safeguards programs. It discusses the reasons why DOE and Defense Programs are and will continue to be directly concerned with national and international safeguards, regardless of where the DOE's Defense Programs activities are located in the government. The Defense Programs organization is expected to remain essentially as it is now constituted. The presentation identifies and analyzes the differences and similarities among the domestic safeguards and security activities, the domestic accountability activities, and the international safeguards activities.