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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... Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit in Whitehall. He has continued to benefit from the generosity of others, and would like to take this opportunity to thank all who have given him a hand in the production of this book. Chief ...
... arms control treaties, it should be at constant risk of failure since, like a good nuclear-free zone, it is doing a job of work. Its success as an international arrangement is not therefore to be judged by occasional failures as such ...
... Arms Control Today, Vol. 33, No. 4, May 2003. 40 Possibly with cash adjustments. See 'Pakistan and North Korea', Strategic Comments, Vol. 8, No. 9, November 2002. 41 Averaging estimates from the US Central Intelligence Agency, as ...
... Technology and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, p. 125. 50 Paul Kerr, 'Libya vows to dismantle WMD program', Arms Control Today, Vol. 34, No. 2, January/February 2004. 2 Nuclear weapons and international security In 2000, almost every.
... arms can easily be used for offensive purposes against a completely disarmed opponent. The security of other states in the system, because of the defensive bias of the armaments in question, will not itself rise by very much at all ...
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 | |