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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... Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (Treaty) Partial Test Ban Treaty pressurised water reactor South East Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Threshold Test Ban Treaty United Nations MTCR MUF NATO NPT NSG OPANAL PNE PTBT PWR SEANWFZ TTBT UN ...
... peaceful applications and non-peaceful applications. The centrepiece of all political efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons lies in attempting to harmonise the proliferation of nuclear reactors with the non-proliferation of ...
... Peaceful and non-peaceful applications of nuclear energy intersect in three places (see Figure 1.1, p. 13): uranium-235, plutonium-239 and, less markedly, radioactive waste (the last is considered in some detail under a separate heading ...
... peaceful uses. Additionally, these reactors produce a relatively large quantity of radioactive waste, which needs to be safely stored so as to prevent its accidental or deliberate introduction into the human environment (see below).
... the Cold War, in 1993 the A3 plant was made part of a purely peaceful tripartite uranium enrichment programme called Urenco, a joint venture with the Dutch and German governments, and was placed under the safeguards of both the.
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 | |