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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter One Establishing Political Conditions to Enhance the Feasibility of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons -- Where are we now? -- The first hurdles -- The next steps -- Chapter Two Verifying the Transition to Zero -- The politics of verifying disarmament -- The mechanics of verification -- Transparency as a sign of good faith? -- Civil-society monitoring -- Costs: how much and who should pay? -- Chapter Three Managing the Nuclear Industry in a World without Nuclear Weapons |
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Keeping the world safe in the nuclear-energy renaissanceThe evolutionary approach: improving IAEA safeguards -- The radical approach: multinational or international ownership of fuel-cycle facilities -- Can the most sensitive nuclear activities be compatible with a nuclear-weapons-free world? -- Chapter Four Enforcement -- Why enforcing compliance might be contentious -- The UN Security Council in a nuclear-weapons-free world: relations between China, Russia and the United States -- Adding India, Israel and Pakistan to the mix -- Is automatic enforcement the answer? |
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Enforcement mechanisms: sanctions and punishments after break-outShould states be permitted to withdraw from an agreement to abolish nuclear weapons? -- Prospects for enforcement -- Chapter Five Hedging and Managing Nuclear Expertise in the Transition to Zero and After -- An internationally controlled nuclear deterrent and/or retaliation force? -- Weapons reconstitution: virtual arsenals and surge capabilities -- Managing residual know-how -- Conclusions -- Appendix Key Suggestions and Questions |
| Summary |
"Nuclear disarmament is firmly back on the international agenda. But almost all current thinking on the subject is focused on the process of reducing the number of weapons from thousands to hundreds. This rigorous analysis examines the challenges that exist to abolishing nuclear weapons completely, and suggests what can be done now to start overcoming them. The paper argues that the difficulties of 'getting to zero' must not preclude many steps being taken in that direction. It thus begins by examining steps that nuclear-armed states could take in cooperation with others to move towards a world in which the task of prohibiting nuclear weapons could be realistically envisaged. The remainder of the paper focuses on the more distant prospect of prohibiting nuclear weapons, beginning with the challenge of verifying the transition from low numbers to zero. It moves on to examine how the civilian nuclear industry could be managed in a nuclear-weapons-free world so as to prevent rearmament. The paper then considers what political-security conditions would be required to make a nuclear-weapons ban enforceable and explores how enforcement might work in practice. Finally, it addresses the latent capability to produce nuclear weapons that would inevitably exist after abolition, and asks whether this is a barrier to disarmament, or whether it can be managed to meet the security needs of a world newly free of the bomb."--Provided by publisher |
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Nuclear arms control.
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Nuclear nonproliferation.
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Nuclear disarmament.
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Security, International.
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International relations.
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international relations.
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International relations
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Nuclear arms control
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Nuclear disarmament
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Nuclear nonproliferation
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Security, International
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1351225979 |
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9781351225977 |
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