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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... carry for hundreds of kilometres downwind, should the fire be accompanied by, or by itself be the cause of, failure in the containment shell most modern power reactors are equipped with.11 The Swedes voted to abandon nuclear power in ...
... carried through. In spite of its intended capacity to separate up to 15 kg of plutonium annually, there was no obvious source of unsafeguarded spent reactor fuel which it could reprocess to produce plutonium for weapons. was In 1990 ...
... carried out research and development work on a Magnox-type reactor fuelled with natural uranium, with a view to having the reactor begin operation by the mid-1990s. Plutonium separation techniques had been explored on a laboratory scale ...
... carried out at the Al Tuwaitha site. In careful imitation of the original US (and probably Soviet) programmes, 70 of these were to be large dees for preliminary enrichment purposes and 20 were to be smaller dees to take enrichment up to ...
... carried out at a 'hot cell' (a laboratory-scale plutonium separation facility) of Italian origin known to the IAEA and within the Al Tuwaitha complex, alongside the reactor 31 32 and the fuel element fabrication plant, but not.
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 | |