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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... effect on detonation is to drive it inwards at every point, compressing the plutonium (both the shape to a solid sphere and the metal itself) to turn it from sub-critical to super-critical. The US codename for the first plutonium bomb ...
... effect that North Korea had begun to construct a nuclear installation, underground, at Kumchangri, 40 km north of Yongbyon, with work on the site having started at least as early as 1996. The US government negotiated access to the site ...
... centrifuges. These details were said by the IAEA to have been made public. The Iranians admitted or half-admitted to everything and volunteered additional information to the effect that they were about to start work at Arak – the site of.
... effect (paragraph 37). Iran had not done this and the initial findings of the Director General's visit concentrated on this failure and on other failures directly arising. For instance, some of the material was handled and processed in ...
... effect on other international quarrels, or, in other words, might promote international security. Yet it may be the case that Waltz's challenge, when examined carefully, does not take great issue with the conventional wisdom about the ...
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 | |