Defense and national security

Executive Order 12840: Nuclear Cooperation With EURATOM

President: Bill Clinton

Temporarily extended peaceful nuclear cooperation with EURATOM through March 10, 1994; EO 12903 supplied the next extension.

Status: Superseded. Is Executive Order 12840 still in effect? No. Executive Order 12840 was superseded. See Executive Order 12903: Nuclear Cooperation With EURATOM.

What does Executive Order 12840 do?

EO 12840 made the statutory determination needed to continue U.S. nuclear cooperation with EURATOM through March 10, 1994. EO 12903 superseded it on March 9, 1994 and authorized the next extension. In a contemporaneous message to Congress, President Clinton described EO 12840 as the prior one-year extension and explained the new determination; this is evidence of the succession of orders, not an assessment of the cooperation’s outcomes.

Administration position: The order stated that ending cooperation would prejudice nonproliferation objectives and jeopardize common defense and security. That was the presidential determination required for the extension.
SignedMarch 9, 1993
Authority citedAtomic Energy Act of 1954, section 126 a.(2)
Extension endpointMarch 10, 1994

Before and after

Before the order

EO 12791 supplied the preceding temporary extension.

After the order

EO 12840 maintained cooperation for one year before EO 12903 supplied a successor extension.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Executive branchContinue the covered cooperation arrangementThrough March 10, 1994
Responsible departmentsAdminister cooperation under the Atomic Energy ActDuring the extension
PresidentMake any later statutory determinationEO 12903 issued March 9, 1994

What happened next

EO 12840 signed and EO 12791 superseded.

EO 12903 superseded EO 12840.

The President informed Congress of the next extension and identified EO 12840 as the prior one-year authority.

Official text and successor order rechecked.