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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... concerning the safety of disposal has forced governments to abandon the search for physically suitable disposal sites of a 'natural harbour' kind in favour of a very expensive and elaborate arrangement, using land at Drigg adjacent to ...
Ian Bellany. The public sensitivity concerning the safety of nuclear waste and, as we shall see below, actual accidents at nuclear reactors have simply added to the non-peaceful potential of radioactive waste. In those parts of the world ...
... accidents and the scale of public apprehension concerning nuclear waste is very crude. The very small accident at Three Mile Island may have had a an among the larger psychological impact on Western publics than the very much.
... concerning the all too finite nature of oil reserves encouraged thinking along conservationist lines and investment in alternative energy sources. Finally, potential suppliers of nuclear energy plant were themselves often states that ...
... concerning both the Brazilian and the Argentine nuclear programmes (see Chapter it 4), announced that the Brazilian navy plant had centrifuge rotors made out of maraging steel, which, with twice the tensile strength of normal steel ...
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 | |