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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... 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 in Britain and in the United States, in ...
... present analysis, of its excessively democratic structure, where all states are treated alike. A fifth conclusion concerns nuclear disarmament in the sense of the abolition of nuclear weapons. It is out of the question, partly for the ...
... present. 2 A mass slightly greater than this ensures an avalanche of neutrons and a rapid chain reaction of successive fissions, accompanied by an enormous release of energy. Because of detailed differences between the two nuclides – in.
... present in the same concentrations that are common in bombs. In a reactor, the very small proportion of uranium-235 in natural uranium can be enough under the right circumstances, although 100 tonnes or more of fuel may have to be ...
... present, usually uranium238, which produces plutonium. So, the rate of plutonium production will depend on the rate of neutron production, which depends on the rate of fissions, which is also the rate at which power is produced. For ...
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 | |