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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... Nuclear Materials Anti-Ballistic Missile (Treaty) African Commission on Nuclear Energy advanced gas-cooled reactor ... Weapons in Latin America Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (Treaty) Partial Test Ban Treaty pressurised water reactor South ...
... nuclear weapons, which remains just out of reach. The concluding section of the book is a series of appendices (broadly in chronological order) which aims to fill in the documentational background. Aside from the texts of the NPT and ...
... be judged by occasional failures as such (which simply demonstrate the fact that it is needed) but by how well its chief backers react and adapt to these emerging realities. 1 Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy This chapter is about.
Ian Bellany. 1. Nuclear. weapons. and. nuclear. energy. This chapter is about nuclear technology and the technical interconnections between commercial and military nuclear programmes. It is also about the spread of nuclear technology and ...
... nuclear energy intersect in three places (see Figure 1.1, p. 13): uranium-235, plutonium-239 and, less markedly ... weapon. The amount needed depends on the design of the weapon. Crude designs which demand a minimum of specialist ...
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 | |