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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... reactor Association of Southeast Asian Nations Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty electromagnetic isotope separation European Union International Atomic Energy Agency intercontinental ballistic missiles International Nuclear Fuel Cycle ...
... reactors with the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Nuclear reactors for peaceful uses constructed in the main for the power they produce, as alternatives to fossil fuels for the generation of electricity on an industrial scale, but ...
... reactor has to be refuelled to remove the unwanted fission products and to insert fresh fuel. Some of the original engineering appeal of nuclear reactors lay in the economies of fuel use promised by the possibility of using the new ...
... reactor, as a fertile material, some thorium will be converted into uranium-233, a uranium isotope similar in ... reactors themselves. Enrichment to low levels, such that 2–4 per cent of the material is uranium-235, is increasingly seen ...
... reactors fuelled with natural uranium contains fewer of the other, unwanted, isotopes (mainly because it is not left inside the reactor for as long) that reduce its value for bomb purposes. Thirdly, designing a plutonium bomb is ...
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 | |