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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... separated from the other fission products using chemical processing. Once separated, it can be incorporated more or less directly into the fuel elements of the sort of reactor that produced it in the first place. Indeed, it is possible ...
... separation, could be used mixed with fresh thorium to form the next batch of fuel. Peaceful and non-peaceful applications of nuclear energy intersect in three places (see Figure 1.1, p. 13): uranium-235, plutonium-239 and, less markedly ...
... 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.
Ian Bellany. polonium and beryllium separated by a thin barrier that would itself collapse under the compression of the sphere. The polonium has to be produced in a nuclear reactor (from the more common element bismuth); it is very ...
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 | |