
Curbing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Ian Bellany(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 31. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7190-6797-6 (ISBN)
Description
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. -- .
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. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-6797-6 (9780719067976)
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Curbing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
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Ian Bellany is Professor of Politics at Lancaster University -- .
Content
Introduction
1. Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy
2. Nuclear weapons and international security
3. The International Atomic Energy Agency and safeguard
4. Understanding nuclear-free zones
5. United States policy on non-proliferation and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
6. Bargaining for test ban treaties
Appendices
A. The Baruch Plan
B. Atoms for Peace
C. Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
D. Treaty of Tlatelolco documentation and texts
E. Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
Index -- .
1. Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy
2. Nuclear weapons and international security
3. The International Atomic Energy Agency and safeguard
4. Understanding nuclear-free zones
5. United States policy on non-proliferation and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
6. Bargaining for test ban treaties
Appendices
A. The Baruch Plan
B. Atoms for Peace
C. Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
D. Treaty of Tlatelolco documentation and texts
E. Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
Index -- .