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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... dangerous to health and at the same time to give the public assurance that this is the case has often proved very difficult. The scale of the problem naturally increases with the amounts of waste involved. Any nuclear programme will ...
... dangers implicit in nuclear waste comes from British experience. The British nuclear power programme, partly because of its original close attachment to reactors fuelled with natural uranium, has long had an interest in the reprocessing ...
... dangerous of these products is the volatile solid iodine-131, which is a reactive element readily taken up by the human body, where it concentrates (alongside natural iodine) in the thyroid gland. It is in fact customary to measure the ...
... dangerous of these to health after plutonium probably being caesium-137 and strontium-90, with their awkwardly long halflives (of around 30 years). Whereas plutonium is most dangerous to health when breathed in, perhaps in the form of ...
... The Iranian explanation for this was that they were interested in it as a miniature power source. But it is a very difficult and dangerous substance to handle, with a short half-life, whose only known application is as an initiator at.
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 | |