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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... produce, as alternatives to fossil fuels for the generation of electricity on an industrial scale, but in some cases for other peaceful purposes, such as the production of isotopes (normally radioactive versions of common chemicals) ...
... produced (it is converted into 'fission products', a process that is accompanied by heat and the emission of neutrons), and some of the fertile material is converted to new fissile material (by the absorption of neutrons). The latter ...
... produced in reactors fuelled with natural uranium contains fewer of the other, unwanted, isotopes (mainly because it ... produce neutrons spontaneously. The neutrons are a form of radioactive emission. Each of these neutrons, on ...
... produce an explosion closer to the theoretical maximum if they do use one. The trigger is a source of neutrons that are produced only once the sphere of plutonium (or uranium-235) has been compressed. A radioactive isotope of polonium ...
... produced in a nuclear reactor (from the more common element bismuth); it is very difficult to handle and has such a short half-life (138 days) that fresh supplies need to be on hand constantly.3 In both sorts of bomb, the fissile ...
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 | |