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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... relatively unproliferated world should not be underestimated. A fourth conclusion relates to the structure of international institutional approaches to securing a public good like a relatively unproliferated world for member states ...
... relatively common substance, beryllium; in a bomb this is achieved by removing a screen between the two. In the first plutonium bomb, the trigger was a small amount of polonium and beryllium separated by a thin barrier that would.
... relatively large quantity of radioactive waste, which needs to be safely stored so as to prevent its accidental or deliberate introduction into the human environment (see below). Peaceful. and. military. uses. of. nuclear. energy. The ...
... relatively small amounts, especially if the diversion is being done by sub-state groups. But even a small quantity of nuclear waste deliberately dispersed near the centre of a large city with a high population density will expose a ...
... relatively lighter component is then fed into the next centrifuge stage, and so forth. Again, it is a continuous process, but here the amount of separation at each stage depends on the difference between the masses of the two component ...
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 | |