1984, January

In January 1984 China becomes a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. Since then, China has declared it would apply IAEA safeguards to nuclear exports. The China Atomic Energy Authoritz (CAEA), which is the regulatory agency for China's nuclear industry, is in charge of cooperation with the IAEA. Norris, Robert S. / Kristensen, Hans M. (2003): Chinese nuclear forces, 2003. In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 59, No. 6, 77-80

Literature:

Information Office of China's State Council (2005): China's Endeavors for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Beijing (http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/doctrine/armscontrol.html)

Burr, William / Richelson, Jeffrey T. (2000): Whether to "strangle the baby in the cradle": The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-64. In: International Security, Vol. 25, No. 3, 54-99 (Published by The MIT Press for the Belfer Center for Science and Intern. Affairs, Harvard Univ.)

Feigenbaum, Evan (2003): China's techno-warriors: National security and strategic competition from the nuclear to the information age. Stanford (Stanford University Press)

External Web Links:

http://www.iaea.org/

http://www.nti.org/db/china/iaeaorg.htm

http://www.caea.gov.cn/n602670/index.html