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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... facility). Legitimate interest can be suggested by similar criteria to those set out for uranium enrichment, as it will normally be much cheaper to have spent fuel reprocessed overseas, even if the spread of providers of reprocessing ...
... facility while keeping the IAEA inspectorate largely in the dark. A fifth deal in the 1970s was of a different character. The French sale of a PWR to South Africa was dependent on sales of slightly enriched uranium as fuel from the USA ...
... facilities, furthermore, indicates that this quantity might have sufficed for one bomb a year since, rather than the crude gun barrel device of the Manhattan Project, the plan was to design a uranium bomb using the compression method ...
... carried out at a 'hot cell' (a laboratory-scale plutonium separation facility) of Italian origin known to the IAEA and within the Al Tuwaitha complex, alongside the reactor 31 32 and the fuel element fabrication plant, but not.
... facility. The inspectors were also shown a 200 MW(e) reactor under construction at Taechon, in the north of the country. All three reactors were of the Magnox type, fuelled with natural uranium, and were inefficient by modern standards ...
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 | |