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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... agreement to ban all testing of nuclear weapons, which remains just out of reach. The concluding section of the book is a series of appendices (broadly in chronological order) which aims to fill in the documentational background. Aside ...
... agreements on the use of fissile materials, can mean that it is more vulnerable to theft than any other product of the nuclear fuel cycle. A threat from irregular forces to contaminate public water supplies with it, or to spread it in ...
... much further discussed here, whereas Argentina and Brazil were to a greater or lesser extent party to the Latin American nuclear-free zone agreement. Since the disclosures were made, with the exception at the time of writing of North.
... agreement with the IAEA. This did not occur until 1992. The length of this delay was not unusual for safeguards agreements in general but was unusually long when there was general agreement that the country concerned had embarked on a ...
... agreement with North Korea that allowed a special inspection – that is to say, a visit to a site that the state in question had omitted to declare. This clause was in all Agency inspection agreements under classical safeguards but had ...
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 | |