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. |
From inside the book
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... energy 2 Nuclear weapons and international security 3 The International Atomic Energy Agency and safeguards 4 Understanding nuclear-free zones 5 United States policy on non-proliferation and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 6 ...
... Energy advanced gas-cooled reactor Association of Southeast Asian Nations Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty electromagnetic isotope separation European Union International Atomic Energy Agency intercontinental ballistic missiles ...
... signature in 1968 and to which every member state of the United Nations (UN) is party, bar India, Israel and Pakistan. Thus, in the first chapter, the NPT appears in the context of the uptake of nuclear energy Introduction.
... Energy Agency (IAEA), an essential prop to the effectiveness of the NPT. In the fourth chapter the context is that of regional nuclear-free zones, a phenomenon both influencing the NPT and influenced by it, and on the whole beneficially ...
... to be judged by occasional failures as such (which simply demonstrate the fact that it is needed) but by how well its chief backers react and adapt to these emerging realities. 1 Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy This chapter is about.
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 | |