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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... actual accidents at nuclear reactors have simply added to the non-peaceful potential of radioactive waste. In those parts of the world where environmental protection is lower on the political agenda than is the case in most Western ...
... actual fact this feature, which is a characteristic of all enrichment processes, was taken advantage of during the Manhattan Project. Two sorts of running tracks of calutrons were made. One, the Alpha, using big dees, with a radius of ...
... actual gross amounts of material in any given period of time processed in a cascade of 35 units will be rather small. Increasing the rotational speed can reduce the number of stages required for a given degree of enrichment, although it ...
... actual plant in operation. Towards the end of December, Mohamed ElBaradei indicated that the IAEA had not known about the enrichment programme, which included a now dismantled pilot centrifuge plant. He added that Libya had imported ...
... actual access to nuclear weapons. And in the case of pariah states (they are pariahs not because they refuse to conform to NPT norms – they refuse to conform to non-proliferation norms because they are pariahs) their bad international ...
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 | |