With 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. The political constraints
on nuclear spread as solutions to the security dilemma are also
examined in three linked categories, including an unusually full
discussion of the phenomenon of nuclear-free zones, with particular
emphasis on the zone covering Latin America. The remarkably
consistent anti-proliferation policies of the USA from Baruch to
Bush are debated and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty itself,
with special attention paid to the international atomic energy's
safeguards system is frankly appraised. -- .
General
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