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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... interest in the project it would never have got off the ground, and their anonymous reader, whose name should be added to the large list of those of whose help these few words are a poor acknowledgement. Lancaster, 2005 Abbreviations ...
... 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 supplies, but it adds to the opportunities for the diversion of fissile ...
... interest in reprocessing spent fuel to extract plutonium for eventual recycling. In the USA, reasoning was similar but led to very different conclusions. There, a proven capacity for enriching uranium for the military programme had ...
... interest in enriching uranium was essentially military, since enriched uranium allows a certain flexibility in the design of bombs, especially of the thermonuclear variety, not permitted by plutonium alone. It was also a hedge against ...
... interest in the reprocessing of spent fuel. The total volume of waste simply in the form of spent fuel elements arising in one year from a 1 GW(e) PWR is about 40 tonnes. If the fuel were to be reprocessed, plutonium and residual ...
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 | |