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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... programmes. It is also about the spread of nuclear technology and the use to which it has been put by a number of states, both inside and outside the NPT, to bring them close to or even take them over the nuclear weapons threshold. The ...
... programme and electricity for the national grid. So the Magnox design was a direct descendant of the plutonium-producing military reactors at Windscale. Like all reactors fuelled by natural uranium, the Magnox types were efficient ...
... of 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.
... programme. In a national context, plutonium reprocessing now offered a way of extending uranium supplies by creating a stockpile of fuel for the expected new generation of fast-breeder nuclear reactors. It also meant an opportunity in ...
... programmes or a delving into the black market, leaving supplier states with very diminished leverage. Radioactive ... programme will create a certain amount of waste, but a 'oncethrough' fuel strategy, which sees spent fuel elements ...
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 | |