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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... explosion closer to the theoretical maximum if they do use one. The trigger is a source of neutrons that are produced only once the sphere of plutonium (or uranium-235) has been compressed. A radioactive isotope of polonium (polonium ...
... explosion to be effective. Thermonuclear bombs (also termed hydrogen bombs) have been tested that give explosive yields a thousand times greater than the sorts of fission (or atom) bomb just described. They employ plutonium or uranium ...
... explode but tend to overheat through some failure of the cooling system, and catch fire as a result. Indeed, overheating adversely affects the neutron economy of the reactor and will tend to move it away from criticality (especially in ...
... explosive (see above). 48 Interestingly, documents uncovered in the IAEA's 'sixth inspection' of Iraq, in September 1991, included a description of the manufacture of polonium there to act as a nuclear initiator. Some 6 mg was produced ...
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 | |