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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... given him a hand in the production of this book. Chief among these is the Leverhulme Trust, without one of whose fellowships in 2003–4 it would have scarcely been possible to complete this work, given the present harsh climate of ...
... given by US delegate Bernard Baruch to the UN Atomic Energy Commission in 1946, and the latest the Joint Declaration by the governments of each half of Korea on the denuclearisation of the peninsula. Since the structure of the book does ...
... given security complex. The practical relevance of this point chiefly relates to the status of the 'big power' nuclear weapons states (the Permanent Five of the Security Council) and possible future additions to their ranks. A third ...
... given by the formula. Furthermore, the quality of the plutonium they produce is less suitable for weapons because of the presence of fairly large amounts of isotopes of plutonium other than 239. Whereas a Magnox reactor run normally for ...
... given to importing states with their own stocks of natural uranium to take an interest in methods of enriching uranium. It is sometimes difficult to gainsay an official justification for this along the lines of wanting security in fuel ...
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 | |