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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... enriched uranium. Another is more theoretical. Traditionally, the neo-realist laissez-faire view of Waltz that nuclear proliferation can be beneficial to international security has been regarded as standing in opposition to the liberal ...
... uranium-235 to provide an initial charge of fuel for a reactor. But during the operation of the reactor, as a ... enriched uranium as opposed to natural uranium can squeeze more power out of each tonne of fuel. Uranium, provided it ...
... enriched in uranium-235 (e.g. to 3 per cent). Where natural uranium is the only fuel available, neutron economy is more critical. Water would absorb too many neutrons unless it were in the form of heavy water, where the ordinary ...
... enriched uranium as fuel will produce plutonium at a rate perhaps only half that given by the formula. Furthermore, the quality of the plutonium they produce is less suitable for weapons because of the presence of fairly large amounts ...
... enriched (an added cost) is more than compensated for by its greater fuel ... uranium over PWR types, then it is much less likely that, in over 30 years ... enriched uranium is available as fuel, as is normally the case with reactors ...
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 | |