Symington Amendment
law & sanctions.
A provision of US foreign-assistance law, named for Senator Stuart Symington and in effect from 1977, that bars most economic and military aid to a country outside the NPT that delivers or receives uranium-enrichment equipment, materials or technology without international safeguards. In April 1979 the Carter administration suspended aid to Pakistan under it because of the Kahuta enrichment plant. Congress later authorised a waiver for Pakistan as aid resumed in the 1980s.123
Linked from 4 pages across CUPA.
Sources
- The United States and Pakistan’s Quest for the Bomb. National Security Archive, George Washington University. Primary document
- Pakistan’s Nuclear Program: Policy and Legal Implications for the United States (18 January 1979). National Security Archive, 1979-01-18. Primary document
- Confrontation and Retreat: Key Legislation (chart). Arms Control Association. Reference
