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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... allow a reader in a hurry in good conscience to take the theoretical adjunct on trust. One thing each chapter has in common is a reference, often lengthy, to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), the chief global political ...
... allow for reactor shut-downs). This formula is very rough and more closely applicable to the maximum rate of plutonium production possible than an average rate (plutonium production rates can be boosted by somewhat more frequent ...
... allows for a more compact reactor structure (megawatt for megawatt, a Magnox requires 10 times the initial weight of fuel loading of a PWR). Had technology moved in the opposite direction, and cost and commercial considerations begun to ...
... allows a certain flexibility in the design of bombs, especially of the thermonuclear variety, not permitted by plutonium alone. It was also a hedge against wartime nuclear cooperation with the United States, which had been suspended in ...
... allowing volatile (meaning compounds usually solid or liquid but easily capable of becoming gaseous) and gaseous radioactive fission products normally contained within the fuel elements to escape. These escaping fission products were ...
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 | |