The Role of National Legislation and International Treaties in Protecting Confidential Information for Nuclear Defense

Abstract

Ouarda Belkacem Layachi.

The secrets of nuclear defense are among the secrets of state security and come at the forefront of the general secrets that the state works to preserve and conceal and provide strict legal protection that protects it from disclosure or circulation, due to its strategic dimensions that are reflected in international peace and security. As it includes information, including military nuclear information, and economic nuclear information, which have become of paramount importance in all countries of the world, given the nerve it represents in the economies of the world’s countries, especially the developed countries, and which countries are keen to preserve and protect the secrets of their nuclear technologies from violation, And the things that represent the secrets that have a tangible physical entity that relate to the defense of the country, especially nuclear weapons, their equipment and parts, number, machinery, nuclear materials, reactor parts, nuclear and fissile materials, and isotopes used in military armament or the economic field, in addition to documents and news. How effective are the legal mechanisms monitored by national legislation to ensure protection of confidential information for nuclear defense, and how do they conform to and harmonize with the provisions of the Physical Protection Convention of 1980 nuclear material? Has the International Atomic Energy Agency succeeded in applying the provisions of its statute to enhance the protection of classified information on nuclear defense?