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. |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 59
... least as great. Uranium. enrichment. While it is reasonable to say that technological progress in the design of nuclear reactors has raised the barriers between the peaceful and non-peaceful uses of nuclear energy – from the reduced ...
... least 50 years. While concealability, in terms of both the physical dimensions of the plant and its requirement for electrical power, is probably the principal determinant of the suitability of an enrichment technique for a secret ...
... least in the short term. One is the ending of the Cold War, which has allowed the output of very large, formerly military plant to be placed on a rather flat international market for enriched uranium. This plainly discourages ...
... work to be taken to the stage of an operating separation plant, until these affairs were overtaken or at least placed on an entirely different footing, like the plan for a reactor, by the decision of Brazil and Argentina to sign up to the.
... least three years have themselves added to disagreements over the meeting of the cost of the interim supplies of oil as questions arose about whether the North Koreans were really using the oil as agreed, to generate power. The delays ...
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 | |