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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... original interest in the project it would never have got off the ground, and their anonymous reader, whose name should be added to the large list of those of whose help these few words are a poor acknowledgement. Lancaster, 2005 ...
... original stockpile of thousands. A final conclusion relates to the NPT itself. Like all good arms control treaties, it should be at constant risk of failure since, like a good nuclear-free zone, it is doing a job of work. Its success as ...
... original fertile material for the capture of valuable neutrons emitted by the fissile material. Periodically, therefore, a reactor has to be refuelled to remove the unwanted fission products and to insert fresh fuel. Some of the original ...
... original quantity of fissile material is small, neutron production does not get very far – most simply escape into the surroundings. But if there is just enough fissile material so that only half the neutrons escape while the other half ...
... original charge of fuel, as uranium already enriched, say, to 50 per cent uranium-235, is almost as useful for bomb purposes as any plutonium produced, provided some means of further enriching the uranium is at hand. However, any ...
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 | |