To help Kissinger prepare for a follow-up discussion, ACDA and State Department officials prepared a "Non-Proliferation: Strategy and Action Programā to help guide policy. A key proposal was for āhigh level political approaches to key exporting countries to enlist their support for safeguarding transfers of nuclear materials.ā While Washington had to approach a number of nuclear exporters, consultations with France āconstitute the most crucial and urgent step to be taken.ā