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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... Atomic Energy Agency and safeguards 4 Understanding nuclear-free zones 5 United States policy on non-proliferation and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 6 Bargaining for test ban treaties Appendices A The Baruch Plan B Atoms for Peace ...
... Atomic Energy Agency intercontinental ballistic missiles International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (conference) Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation Missile Technology Control Regime material unaccounted for North Atlantic ...
... Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an essential prop to the effectiveness of the NPT. In the fourth chapter the context is that of regional nuclear-free zones, a phenomenon both influencing the NPT and influenced by it, and on the whole ...
... atom) bomb just described. They employ plutonium or uranium bombs as igniters, usually in the form of two separate critical masses, to bring about the fusion of light elements, deuterium (also know as 'heavy hydrogen') and tritium (the ...
... atoms or molecules of the substance in question is first given an electrical charge and then fired through a vacuum chamber under the influence of an electrical voltage and an applied magnetic field. The molecules are speeded up by the ...
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 | |