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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... country deserving of the name, without whose original interest in the project it would never have got off the ground, and their anonymous reader, whose name should be added to the large list of those of whose help these few words are a ...
... countries with reprocessing services so that they would have no excuse for developing their own. Restrictiveness also meant so-called 'full-scope safeguards' on all nuclear exports (see Chapter 3). Engagement meant safeguards only on ...
... countries the advantages of the centrifuge (including the further development potential inherent in a comparatively recently proven technology, in contrast with the technical plateau reached by chemical methods and gas diffusion) are ...
... country that which it was wished to keep hidden. Lastly, there may be a lesson concerning the supply side. The European Urenco consortium, perhaps because it is quite clearly not attached to any state's nuclear weapons programme and is ...
... country signing the treaty and its entry into the required safeguards agreement with the IAEA. This did not occur until 1992. The length of this delay was not unusual for safeguards agreements in general but was unusually long when ...
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 | |