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 ... Free Zone Threshold Test Ban Treaty United Nations MTCR MUF NATO NPT NSG OPANAL PNE PTBT PWR SEANWFZ TTBT UN ...
... nuclear-free zones, a phenomenon both influencing the NPT and influenced by it, and on the whole beneficially. The fifth chapter places the NPT in the context of US non-proliferation policy, and vice versa. The final chapter is about ...
... nuclear (e.g. the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone) they should not automatically be seen as a good thing. But when they do not clearly fail such tests, their potential contribution as major building blocks of a relatively unproliferated ...
... nuclear-free zone, it is doing a job of work. Its success as an international arrangement is not therefore to be judged by occasional failures as such (which simply demonstrate the fact that it is needed) but by how well its chief ...
... nuclear weapons based on a domestic programme of manufacture, usually ... nuclear and so is not much further discussed here, whereas Argentina and Brazil were to a greater or lesser extent party to the Latin American nuclear-free zone ...
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 | |