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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... established in the case of enriched uranium, but in practice less well established in the case of plutonium), the same is not true for radioactive waste – the name usually given to the byproducts of the extraction of plutonium from used ...
... established laboratory instrument known as a mass spectrometer. In this instrument, an orderly stream of atoms or molecules of the substance in question is first given an electrical charge and then fired through a vacuum chamber under ...
... established in relation to Lawrence's calutron set-up, above). On the other hand, there seems to be no limit to the size of the individual separation stages. A diffuser unit (enrichment stage) can reach the size of a double-decker bus ...
... established ways of enriching uranium, including chemical methods (used in the Manhattan Project), which have cost advantages where low enriched uranium for reactor fuel is a genuine priority. These have been explored extensively in ...
... nuclear capacity is high; and national reliance on nuclear power is great enough for considerations of reliability of fuel supply to be prominent. Elsewhere, considerations of the advantage enjoyed by the established large-scale.
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 | |