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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... average) per fission and plutonium-239 nearer three – a critical mass of plutonium is smaller, but at the same time harder to assemble. A simple uranium-based bomb can be made by assembling two subcritical, shaped masses of uranium, at ...
... average rate (plutonium production rates can be boosted by somewhat more frequent refuellings than would normally be dictated by commercial considerations, i.e. where efficient power production was the priority, since in normal ...
... average rate and the maximum rate of plutonium production is more marked. When run for efficient power production, more modern designs of reactor with slightly enriched uranium as fuel will produce plutonium at a rate perhaps only half ...
... average (average simply being the total divided by the number of states in the complex) security of states within the system. What can we say about what happens to total security in a security complex as nuclear weapons spread? Jon ...
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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 | |