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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... seems likely that the Agency, to some extent abetted by vigorous state campaigners against proliferation such as the USA, originally became rather fixated on plutonium as the critical precursor of nuclear weapons and for too long gave ...
... seem to be theoretically possible but a fully working prototype has yet to be demonstrated). Inside a reactor, fissile material is not normally present in the same concentrations that are common in bombs. In a reactor, the very small ...
... , without active recycling. Only if uranium were to become extremely scarce does it seem that the British preference for overt recycling would make complete economic sense, although the break-even point requires certain assumptions.
... the Soviet Union it would seem – essentially agreed on the wisdom of combating the spread of nuclear weapons or at worst agnostic in this regard. The were differences were about tactics, and especially engagement as opposed to.
... seems to have been about 10 curies (Ci). 12 The total radioactive content of the reactor was about 10,000 MCi. In April 1986 a considerably more serious accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), when ...
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 | |