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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... question at hand. Each chapter attempts to illuminate the whole or a goodly part of the spread of nuclear weapons and how to curb it, but from a particular perspective. The chapters are like a series of photographs of a particular three ...
... 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 same sort of reason that the Comprehensive.
... question obtaining a significant amount of highly enriched uranium could be very short indeed. Moreover, if there was in any case a supply of enriched fuel for the compact reactor, there would be no reason to divert the fuel from that ...
... question of uranium supplies, although later it became clear that domestic sources of uranium ore were comparatively plentiful. Their choice of lightly enriched uranium as fuel for power-producing reactors (ultimately for the ...
... in the US view at least, the states in question were of doubtful character. The engagement view was that such exports should continue, under safeguards, which might be strengthened where necessary. This was not only out.
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 | |