Nine years after countries agreed they were sorely needed, new global rules aimed at stopping terrorists from acquiring nuclear materials should come into force in 2014, according to a senior UN official in an article from Reuters.
An amendment to the 1980 Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) was agreed in 2005, the article says, but it has not yet been ratified by two-thirds of parties to the CPPNM needed for it to come into force.