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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... March 1979 one of the reactors at this two-unit station accidentally lost some of the cooling water that normally circulates around the fuel elements and conveys the heat produced within the elements to the steam-generating plant. This ...
... March 2000, US President Bill Clinton notified Congress (as required by US domestic antiproliferation legislation) that he was unable to certify that North Korea was not 'seeking to develop or acquire a capability to enrich uranium, or ...
... March 2002, Bush refused to certify to Congress that North Korea was in compliance with the Agreed Framework. Shortly after work had begun on constructing the PWRs, a meeting in Pyongyang in October 2002 between US and North Korean ...
... March 2003 about making a clean breast of things and that the December announcement was the product of tripartite discussions also involving the USA. During these discussions it had emerged, among other things, that Libya had ...
... March 1951, during the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur suggested in Tokyo that as an alternative to extending the war into China he might 'sever Korea from Manchuria by laying a field of radioactive wastes – the by-products of ...
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 | |