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. |
From inside the book
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... proliferation and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 6 Bargaining for test ban treaties Appendices A The Baruch Plan B Atoms for Peace C Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons D Treaty of Tlatelolco documentation and texts ...
... proliferation Treaty Nuclear Suppliers' Group Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (Treaty) Partial Test Ban Treaty pressurised water reactor South East Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone ...
... proliferation Treaty (NPT), the chief global political instrument operating to restrain the spread of nuclear weapons, first opened for signature in 1968 and to which every member state of the United Nations (UN) is party, bar India ...
... proliferation policy, and vice versa. The final chapter is about the main missing prop of the NPT, an international agreement to ban all testing of nuclear weapons, which remains just out of reach. The concluding section of the book is ...
... proliferation is a better guarantee of international security. The conclusion reached here is that much depends on how far proliferation may have progressed within a given security complex. The practical relevance of this point chiefly ...
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 | |