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This paper provides an overview of the range of issues that the Conference of Disarmament will confront in the negotiation of a ban on the production of fissile materials for use in nuclear weapons or other explosive devices. The author explains that the successful negotiation of a treaty to ban the production of fissile materials will serve several purposes. Banning the production of such materials for nuclear weapons will reduce the pool of materials available for manufacturing such weapons, thereby benefiting the causes of horizontal and vertical non-proliferation and will also lower the risk of diversion to terrorists.