UPSC Prelims 2017 Question:

Consider the following statements

1. The Nuclear Security Summits are periodically held under the aegis of the United Nations. 
2. The International Panel on Fissile Materials is an organ of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
    

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Explanation: 

Nuclear Security Summit:

• It was announced in an April 2009 speech by U.S. President Barack Obama, in which he pledged to hold a global summit on nuclear security in 2010 as part of an effort to "secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” The nuclear security summit focus remained on nuclear material in the civil sphere and did not address the security of military nuclear material.
  
  
• There were four summits in total: in Washington, D.C. in 2010, Seoul, South Korea in 2012, the Hague, Netherlands in 2014 and Washington, D.C.  in 2016. It is not held periodically under the aegis of the United Nations. So, statement 1 is not correct.
  
  

International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM):

• It was founded in 2006 and is an independent group of arms-control and non-proliferation experts from both nuclear weapon and non-nuclear weapon states. So, statement 2 is not correct.
  
  
• The mission of the IPFM is to analyze the technical basis for practical and achievable policy initiatives to secure, consolidate, and reduce stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and plutonium.
  
  

Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer.

Subject: Science & Technology | Nuclear Technology