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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... less than A1 2.4 International security in a complex as a function of nuclear spread: case 4, C0 is much greater than A1 2.5 Risk of accidental nuclear war as a function of nuclear spread, plotted as the number of years before an ...
... less significant and more significant than is often assumed. Sometimes they do not especially resemble security complexes and either for that reason or because they are not doing any particular job of work in holding back pressures to ...
... less directly into the fuel elements of the sort of reactor that produced it in the first place. Indeed, it is possible to design reactors – so-called 'fast breeders' – that produce a net gain in the amount of fissile material involved ...
... less markedly, radioactive waste (the last is considered in some detail under a separate heading, below). One fissile isotope of uranium, uranium-235, can be extracted directly from (or more commonly made more concentrated within) ...
Ian Bellany. 1 make do with half as much or less. Similarly, plutonium can also be used directly for the manufacture of a nuclear weapon. But there are a number of important differences between the two routes. First, plutonium is a more ...
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 | |