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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... radioactive versions of common chemicals), for use in, for example, medical diagnostic imaging. What all nuclear reactors have in common is nuclear fuel, which must contain at least some uranium in the form of the isotope uranium-235 ...
... radioactive, and these gradually and unproductively begin to compete with the original fertile material for the capture of valuable neutrons emitted by the fissile material. Periodically, therefore, a reactor has to be refuelled to ...
... radioactive waste (the last is considered in some detail under a separate heading, below). One fissile isotope of ... radioactivity involved is a variant of well understood chemical engineering processes, uranium enrichment was at first ...
... radioactive emission. Each of these neutrons, on colliding with intact fissile material, will stimulate new fission and cause further neutrons to be released virtually instantaneously, perhaps two on each occasion, and so forth in a ...
... radioactive isotope of polonium (polonium-210) produces charged nuclear particles (alpha particles) spontaneously and these produce neutrons if they impact on a relatively common substance, beryllium; in a bomb this is achieved by ...
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 | |