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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... forces to contaminate public water supplies with it, or to spread it in dry form in a built-up area, will make up in psychological impact for what it may lack in real menace to life. In defence of the reprocessing approach, the once ...
... forces designers to explore alternatives to the aluminium alloy rotors used in earlier designs21 and it does nothing for the volume of flow. Increased rotational speed is a feature of more advanced designs, as are longer (i.e. taller) ...
... force of the NPT in 1970, a rather large number of states, some at the time party to the treaty and some not, have attracted reasonable suspicion, as we have already seen, that they were working towards the acquisition of nuclear ...
... force from 1998 and 1995 for these states, respectively). Iraq The case of Iraq is well known. In the aftermath of the Gulf War of 1990–91, a special inspection team from the IAEA and mandated by the UN uncovered a secret bomb programme ...
... force' in exchange for a non-aggression treaty with the USA – a long-standing request given obvious new urgency by the 2003 Iraq war. 39 The 'bargaining by other means' has continued until the present day. The North Korean admission ...
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 | |