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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... activities are at the heart of the NPT. It seems likely that the Agency, to some extent abetted by vigorous state campaigners against proliferation such as the USA, originally became rather fixated on plutonium as the critical precursor ...
... activities by carrying them out within the same nuclear complex that housed acknowledged activities, as it was believed that additional movements of people and material would scarcely be noticeable to a casual observer. The other ...
... activities – the 5 MW(e) reactor shut down, no reprocessing of fuel, construction of the other reactors halted – North Korea receives at minimal cost to itself two PWRs of about 1,000 MW(e) each, and deliveries of heating oil while the ...
... activities. Without that, there is no hard information – only that communicated between the two sides, and that information is not guaranteed to be free from misapprehension, on either side. 38 More, with no one 'on the ground' in North ...
... activities agreed under the NPT from at least 1995, the fact that the USA was the chief prosecutor and judge, together with Iran's long-held status as a bête noire of US foreign policy, added to the fact that there no evidence that Iran ...
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 | |