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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... applications and non-peaceful applications. The centrepiece of all political efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons lies in attempting to harmonise the proliferation of nuclear reactors with the non-proliferation of nuclear ...
... applications of nuclear energy intersect in three places (see Figure 1.1, p. 13): uranium-235, plutonium-239 and, less markedly, radioactive waste (the last is considered in some detail under a separate heading, below). One fissile ...
... applications of enriched uranium or plutonium will normally aim to pursue this interest in secret. A secret plutonium separation plant normally means a secret reactor too, unless there is a large reactor already openly present, some of ...
... Iranian explanation for this was that they were interested in it as a miniature power source. But it is a very difficult and dangerous substance to handle, with a short half-life, whose only known application is as an initiator at.
Ian Bellany. half-life, whose only known application is as an initiator at the core of a nuclear explosive (see above). 48 Interestingly, documents uncovered in the IAEA's 'sixth inspection' of Iraq, in September 1991, included a ...
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 | |