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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... military purposes. One drawback of the commercial success of the PWR design is the incentive it has given to importing states with their own stocks of natural uranium to take an interest in methods of enriching uranium. It is sometimes ...
... military programme had eventually emerged from the Manhattan Project in the form of a large gas diffusion plant, and using some of that same capacity to provide enriched uranium for reactor fuel for military (naval propulsion) and ...
... 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 wartime nuclear cooperation with the United ...
... military programme on enriched uranium. Of the following 11 states thought to have at least flirted with manufacturing nuclear weapons – Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan and South ...
... military potential of enriched uranium from the start, and the next three soon discovered its military uses for themselves and began enrichment programmes – the broad trend suggests that both the political and technical obstacles to a ...
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 | |