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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... normally underpinned by a theoretical treatment, without which it would be incomplete. A particularly straightforward example is Chapter 6, where elementary bargaining theory is used to throw light on the long international history of ...
... normally expect to obtain privileges for themselves within the context of the institutional bargain. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, an adjunct arrangement to the NPT, has been stalled for a decade chiefly because, on the present ...
... (normally radioactive versions of common chemicals), for use in, for example, medical diagnostic imaging. What all nuclear reactors have in common is nuclear fuel, which must contain at least some uranium in the form of the isotope ...
... normally contain so-called 'fertile material', which is nearly always the common uranium isotope uranium-238 (or more rarely thorium – see below). Finally, as soon as a reactor begins to operate, the original fissile material is ...
... normally requires the preforming of plutonium into two slightly hollowed out metal hemispheres, which when mated together form a sphere with a hollow centre (supposing the critical mass to be 6 kg, which will depend on the bomb's design ...
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 | |