Nuclear Power And Weapons Proliferation

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000199543

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Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

In mid-1980 a second conference for the review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would take place in Geneva. Given the importance of preventing, or at least slowing down, nuclear weapon proliferation, this conference would be a crucial event in the field of arms control and disarmament. For many countries the technical and economic barriers to proliferation had disappeared, and the only remaining barriers were political. In an attempt to contribute to the discussions at the NPT Review Conference, SIPRI assembled a group of experts from a number of countries to discuss the technical aspects of the control of fissionable materials in non-military applications. The meeting took place in Stockholm, 12-16 October 1978. Originally published in 1979, this book on nuclear energy and nuclear weapon proliferation contains the papers presented at the symposium and reflects the discussions at the meeting.

Author : T. T. Poulose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039736389

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Nuclear Proliferation and the Third World by T. T. Poulose Pdf

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000199246

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Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

In mid-1980 a second conference for the review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would take place in Geneva. Given the importance of preventing, or at least slowing down, nuclear weapon proliferation, this conference would be a crucial event in the field of arms control and disarmament. For many countries the technical and economic barriers to proliferation had disappeared, and the only remaining barriers were political. In an attempt to contribute to the discussions at the NPT Review Conference, SIPRI assembled a group of experts from a number of countries to discuss the technical aspects of the control of fissionable materials in non-military applications. The meeting took place in Stockholm, 12-16 October 1978. Originally published in 1979, this book on nuclear energy and nuclear weapon proliferation contains the papers presented at the symposium and reflects the discussions at the meeting.

Author : Allan S. Krass,Peter Boskma,Boelie Elzen,Wim A. Smit,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000200546

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Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation by Allan S. Krass,Peter Boskma,Boelie Elzen,Wim A. Smit,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Author : Robert F. Mozley
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0295802537

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The Politics and Technology of Nuclear Proliferation by Robert F. Mozley Pdf

Politics and technology intersect in the international effort to prevent nuclear proliferation. Written for scientists, policy makers, journalists, students, and concerned citizens, The Politics and Technology of Nuclear Proliferation makes a highly complex subject understandable. This comprehensive overview provides information about both the basic technologies and the political realities. Methods of producing weapon materials—plutonium and highly enriched uranium—as well as their use in bombs are described in detail, as is the generally successful international effort to prevent the spread of the ability to make nuclear weapons. In explaining the problems the world will face if nuclear weapons become generally available, Mozley summarizes and reviews the methods used to prevent proliferation and describes the status of those nations involved in trade in nuclear materials. He places emphasis on the danger of attack by renegade nations or terrorist groups, particularly the possibility that weapon material might be stolen from the presently impoverished and unstable former Soviet Union.

Author : William C. Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004462225

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Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation by William C. Potter Pdf

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000199239

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Internationalization to Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

First published in 1980, the original blurb read: In August – September 1980 the second Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will take place in Geneva. As this Treaty is the most important barrier to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the results of the Conference will obviously have major effects in the field of arms control and disarmament. The implications of the recent International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) are that the technological capabilities of many countries are such that there is no technical solution to the problem of the spread of nuclear weapons to countries that do not now have them. Thus, it appears that if there is a solution at all, it must be political in nature. A possible element in such a political solution is the internationalization of the sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle; that is, those parts that have the potential of producing fissile materials to make nuclear weapons. Although the intricacies of a system of internationalization are still unresolved, the concept, if realized, would provide another powerful political barrier to nuclear weapon proliferation – a reinforcement for the aims of the NPT itself. Against this background, and as a follow-up to its first symposium and the resultant book, Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation, SIPRI convened a second international group of experts to continue its discussions of issues pertinent to the forthcoming NPT Review Conference. The meeting took place at SIPRI in Stockholm, 31 October – 2 November 1979, when the feasibility of internationalizing the nuclear fuel cycle was examined. SIPRI’s views on this complex approach are expressed in Part 1 of this book - Internationalization to Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons. Part 2 contains the papers that were presented at the symposium.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : SRLF:AA0005193545

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Peaceful Nuclear Exports and Weapons Proliferation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Lavoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317996415

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Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in the Next Decade by Peter Lavoy Pdf

The intensification of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises has created new fears that deteriorating security conditions in the Middle East, Northeast Asia, and other regions will lead additional countries to seek their own nuclear arsenals in the years to come. This special issue examines the factors that are likely to shape nuclear weapons proliferation over the next decade. The internationally recognized authors of this issue, many of whom are prominent scholars and others of whom have held influential governmental positions with responsibility for countering nuclear proliferation, bring to light the conditions and events that might drive new countries to pursue nuclear weapons; the indicators and cautionary signs that can provide early warning that a country is interested in building nuclear bombs; and the policy and military measures that can be adopted to prevent or at least dissuade new proliferators. The introductory chapter develops a novel analytical approach focusing on the role of nuclear myths and mythmakers and the subsequent chapters draw on this approach to help analysts better understand and policy makers better manage nuclear proliferation over the next ten years.

Author : Vipin Narang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691172620

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Seeking the Bomb by Vipin Narang Pdf

The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics. Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, Vipin Narang develops an original typology of proliferation strategies—hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. Narang delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program. As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, Seeking the Bomb explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation.

Author : Ted Greenwood,George W. Rathjens,Jack P. Ruina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081300308

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Nuclear Power and Weapons Proliferation by Ted Greenwood,George W. Rathjens,Jack P. Ruina Pdf

Author : United States. Department of Energy,United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UCR:31210018771640

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Nuclear Proliferation and Civilian Nuclear Power by United States. Department of Energy,United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Pdf

Author : Atlantic Council of the United States. Nuclear Fuels Policy Working Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : UOM:39015005375483

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Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation by Atlantic Council of the United States. Nuclear Fuels Policy Working Group Pdf

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Author : James Wirtz,Peter Lavoy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804774017

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Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats by James Wirtz,Peter Lavoy Pdf

In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to seek their own nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles. This likely would produce greater instability, more insecure states, and further proliferation. Are there steps concerned countries can take to anticipate, prevent, or dissuade the next generation of proliferators? Are there countries that might reassess their decision to forgo a nuclear arsenal? This volume brings together top international security experts to examine the issues affecting a dozen or so countries' nuclear weapons policies over the next decade. In Part I, National Decisions in Perspective, the work describes the domestic political consideration and international pressures that shape national nuclear policies of several key states. In Part II, Fostering Nonproliferation, the contributors discuss the factors that shape the future motivations and capabilities of various states to acquire nuclear weapons, and assess what the world community can do to counter this process. The future utility of bilateral and multilateral security assurances, treaty-based nonproliferation regimes, and other policy instruments are covered thoroughly.

Author : Henrik Stålhane Hiim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351026048

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China and International Nuclear Weapons Proliferation by Henrik Stålhane Hiim Pdf

This book explores China’s approach to the nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea. A major power with access to nuclear technology, China has a significant impact on international nuclear weapons proliferation, but its attitude towards the spread of the bomb has been inconsistent. China’s mixed record raises a broader question: why, when and how do states support potential nuclear proliferators? This book develops a framework for analyzing such questions, by putting forth three factors that are likely to determine a state’s policy: (1) the risk of changes in the nuclear status or military doctrines of competitors; (2) the recipient’s status and strategic value; and (3) the extent of pressure from third parties to halt nuclear assistance. It then demonstrates how these factors help explain China’s policies towards Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea. Overall, the book finds that China has been a selective and strategic supporter of nuclear proliferators. While nuclear proliferation is a security challenge to China in some settings, in others, it wants to help its friends build the bomb. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, nuclear proliferation, Chinese foreign policy and International Relations in general.