Curbing the spread of nuclear weaponsWith the 2005 Review Conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book provides a fully detailed but accessible and accurate introduction to the technical aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons for the specialist and non-specialist alike. It considers nuclear weapons from varying perspectives, including the technology perspective, which views them as spillovers from nuclear energy programmes; and the theoretical perspective, which looks at the collision between national and international security – the security dilemma – involved in nuclear proliferation. It aims to demonstrate that international security is unlikely to benefit from encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons except in situations where the security complex is already largely nuclearised. |
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... Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan and South Africa – seven did so. And of the four that based their programmes on plutonium, two, India and Israel, began their programmes before the NPT came into being, in.
... Iran has explored laser enrichment techniques. And the South Korean authorities have admitted to the IAEA that small (gram) amounts of uranium-235 were produced there by the laser technique in 2000.25. States. at. the. margin. Background ...
... Iran were restricted to one PWR plant plus some laboratory-scale nuclear technology. Iran subsequently developed a uranium enrichment facility while keeping the IAEA inspectorate largely in the dark. A fifth deal in the 1970s was of a ...
... Iran and Libya. Of these states, at the time of disclosure three – Iraq, Iran and Libya – were fully party to the NPT and subject to regular IAEA inspection. North Korea was in an anomalous position of threatening to withdraw from the ...
... Iranian revolution in 1979. The site was damaged by bombing during the Iran–Iraq war. After the war, the USA put pressure on the western European suppliers to boycott the Iranian plan, alleging it was cover for a secret weapons ...
Contents
The International Atomic Energy Agency and safeguards | |
Understanding nuclearfree zones | |
United States policy on nonproliferation and the Nuclear Non | |
Bargaining for test ban treaties | |
A The Baruch Plan | |
B Atoms for Peace | |
Treaty of Tlatelolco documentation and texts | |
E Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean | |