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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... centrifuge plant, at Capenhurst again, at the end of the 1970s, named A3, but were soon able to save at least 50 per cent on capital costs when the USA agreed (in the context of a worsening of the Cold War) to enrich the output from A3 ...
... centrifuge method, which had to wait another 20 years in the West for it to become practicable on an industrial scale, although there is good evidence that it had started to displace gas diffusion in the Soviet Union from an earlier ...
... centrifuge method, separation is achieved by rotating the gas in a vertical cylinder (a rotor) at very high speeds, causing the heavier isotope preferentially to be concentrated on the periphery and the lighter towards the centre of the ...
... centrifuge of basic design might be only 1 m high and 20 cm across so as to be able to withstand the high stresses caused by the very rapid ... Centrifuges are more concealable. A comparatively small centrifuge plant does not inflict great.
... centrifuge where a secret or semi-secret bomb programme is concerned. There are other established ways of enriching uranium, including chemical methods (used in the Manhattan Project), which have cost advantages where low enriched ...
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 | |