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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... possible to complete this work, given the present harsh climate of overstretch facing staff even in the best of British universities. Indispensable help with the book of a different kind has come from a large number of individuals both ...
... possible in plain-language but the argument is 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 ...
... possible future additions to their ranks. A third conclusion concerns nuclear-free zones. These are seen as both less significant and more significant than is often assumed. Sometimes they do not especially resemble security complexes ...
... possible to design reactors – so-called 'fast breeders' – that produce a net gain in the amount of fissile material involved. Prototype fast breeders have been developed in France and Japan. Where thorium is used as the fertile material ...
... possible but a fully working prototype has yet to be demonstrated). Inside a reactor, fissile material is not normally present in the same concentrations that are common in bombs. In a reactor, the very small proportion of uranium-235 ...
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 | |