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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... reached. One concerns the IAEA, whose safeguard activities are at the heart of the NPT. It seems likely that the Agency, to some extent abetted by vigorous state campaigners against proliferation such as the USA, originally became ...
... 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 relates to the status of the 'big power' nuclear weapons states (the Permanent ...
... (reaching into Belarus and Russia) and appearing sooner than current scientific understanding would seem to predict.14 The Chernobyl accident, with the several thousand persons affected by its release of iodine-131, is a reasonable guide ...
... reached by chemical methods and gas diffusion) are beginning to be understood and acted on. Politically, the immediate potential of chemical methods for producing highly enriched uranium seems to be limited, however. Their relevance ...
... reaching an annual output of four or five times as much before the turn of the century.30 It seems that the second calutron racetrack, planned for Ash Sharqat, 200 km north-west of Baghdad (while still within Sunni heartlands), was a ...
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 | |