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Journal Article
Interview: Mohamed ElBaradei
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Abstract
After three terms, 12 years, and countless unprecedented challenges, the IAEA can't help but be changed by its outgoing director-general. Three months before mohamed ElBaradei leaves office, he explains how such an evolution is only a start.
Source Documents
 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (298.0 KB)
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) prohibits all of its member states from carrying out nuclear testing of any kind and also requires that each party avoid causing or influencing any other tests. As International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei mentions in the interview, he views the CTBT as the next step on the path to a nuclear-weapon-free world after the United States and Russia ratify a follow-on agreement to START.
Statute of the IAEA (85.4 KB)
The document, with subsequent amendments, of course, that provide International Atomic Energy Agency director-generals such as Mohamed ElBaradei their marching orders. Specifically, the statute outlines the agency's objective as "accelerating and enlarging the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health, and prosperity throughout the world. It shall ensure, so far as it is able, that assistance provided by it or at its request under its supervision or control is not used in such a way as to further any military purpose.
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