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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... Soviet Union it would seem – essentially agreed on the wisdom of combating the spread of nuclear weapons or at worst agnostic in this regard. The were differences were about tactics, and especially engagement as opposed to.
... of the reactor was about 10,000 MCi. In April 1986 a considerably more serious accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), when one reactor of a four-unit nuclear power station caught.
... Soviet Union after the war). 16 It not only suffered from being a batch process, as opposed to the possibility of continuous operation offered by some alternatives, but it was also exceptionally costly to run in terms of electricity ...
... Soviet) programmes, 70 of these were to be large dees for preliminary enrichment purposes and 20 were to be smaller dees to take enrichment up to that required for a bomb. Further, the sizes of the large and small dees were exactly ...
... Soviet Union, called the IRT-5000, fuelled with highly enriched uranium, and under IAEA safeguards. Between regular visits from IAEA inspectors, before the war the Iraqis had secretly irradiated three home-made fuel elements containing ...
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 | |