When President Clinton proposed an international ban on the production of nuclear weapon material in a September 1993 speech to the United Nations, the idea was widely applauded. Two months later, the U.N. General Assembly unanimously endorsed the idea of a fissile-material cutoff, and in June 1994, Canadian Amb. Gerald Shannon polled participants at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva, who agreed that they were ready to pursue negotiations.
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