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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Ian Bellany. appears in the context of the uptake of nuclear energy for commercial reasons. In the second chapter the context is that of international relations theory, with special reference to rational-choice approaches. In the third ...
... reason or because they are not doing any particular job of work in holding back pressures to go nuclear (e.g. the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone) they should not automatically be seen as a good thing. But when they do not clearly fail ...
Ian Bellany. partly for the same sort of reason that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has run into the sand, and partly because it would place an impossibly large task on any inspectorate required to verify that no state had secretly ...
... reason is again critical mass. When a reactor is operating normally, the rate of production of neutrons as a result of fissions of uranium-235 will equal the rate at which they are 'lost'. Some are lost by being absorbed in the concrete ...
... reason to divert the fuel from that reactor for military purposes. One drawback of the commercial success of the PWR design is the incentive it has given to importing states with their own stocks of natural uranium to take an interest ...
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 | |