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GENEVA — The 65-nation Conference on Disarmament broke a dozen years of deadlock Friday and opened the way to negotiate a new nuclear-arms control treaty.
Diplomats welcomed the adoption of a “program of work” as a breakthrough for the conference, which has been stalemated since it wrote the nuclear test ban treaty in 1996.
The program refers to nuclear disarmament in general, but it indicates a top candidate for a new treaty is one to ban production of so-called fissile materials — highly enriched uranium and plutonium — needed to create atomic weapons.
