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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... 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.
Ian Bellany. Because of detailed differences between the two nuclides – in fact the fissile uranium-235 nucleus liberates about two and a half neutrons (on average) per fission and plutonium-239 nearer three – a critical mass of ...
... fact that a PWR requires fuel that has been enriched (an added cost) is more than compensated for by its greater fuel 'mileage'. A single charge of fuel of 35 tonnes produces the same amount of energy as 255 tonnes does in a Magnox ...
... fact that it has until recently tended to fall outside the remit of international agreements on the use of fissile materials, can mean that it is more vulnerable to theft than any other product of the nuclear fuel cycle. A threat from ...
... fact customary to measure the size of a nuclear reactor accident by the amount of radioactivity released as iodine-131 into the locality. The amount of radioactivity released as iodine-131 at Three Mile Island seems to have been 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 | |