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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... , which must contain at least some uranium in the form of the isotope uranium-235 (or very much more rarely 233), or plutonium, or both. This is usually described as 'fissile material'. Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
... least slightly enriched in uranium-235 (e.g. to 3 per cent). Where natural uranium is the only fuel available, neutron economy is more critical. Water would absorb too many neutrons unless it were in the form of heavy water, where the ...
... least 50 per cent on capital costs when the USA agreed (in the context of a worsening of the Cold War) to enrich the output from A3 up to military levels (from 4.5 per cent to 90 per cent or more). After the end of the Cold War, in 1993 ...
... the NPT, if, in the US view at least, the states in question were of doubtful character. The engagement view was that such exports should continue, under safeguards, which might be strengthened where necessary. This was not only out.
... least in theory) removes plutonium to the comparative safety of the interior of a reactor, as fuel. No actual use of radioactive waste for warlike purposes has ever been recorded, although there is evidence that US commanders gave ...
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 | |