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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... Risk of accidental nuclear war as a function of nuclear spread, plotted as the number of years before an accidental nuclear strike may be expected to occur 2.6 International security in a complex as a function of nuclear spread: k-value ...
... risk of failure since, like a good nuclear-free zone, it is doing a job of work. Its success as an international arrangement is not therefore to be judged by occasional failures as such (which simply demonstrate the fact that it is ...
... risk of premature detonation. While there does not exist such a thing as a 'proliferation-proof' design of reactor, diverting a PWR type from its normal operating (i.e. electricity-producing) mode to produce weapons-grade plutonium ...
... risk that none of these would work hedged against by the pursuit of a method that was guaranteed to work, if only laboriously and inefficiently. This was a variant on the well established laboratory instrument known as a mass ...
... risks of detection than seem prudent in order to achieve a goal as important as a nuclear weapons capability. Linked to this, states working on a ... risk taking and national pride work in the favour of IAEA inspectors, provided they do.
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 | |