Uranium, the Joint Facilities, Disarmament, and Peace
Author: Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →BG (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author: Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →BG (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author: Australia. Parliament. Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains the concluding chapters 21 and 22 of: Disarmament and arms control in the nuclear age / the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1986.
Author: Michael Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1317177193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Australia’s Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests critically re-evaluates Australia’s engagement with nuclear weapons, nuclear power and the nuclear fuel cycle since the dawn of the nuclear age. The authors develop a holistic conception of ’nuclear policy’ that extends across the three distinct but related spheres - strategic, economic and normative - that have arisen from the basic ’dual-use’ dilemma of nuclear technology. Existing scholarship on Australia’s nuclear policy has generally grappled with each of these spheres in isolation. In a fresh evaluation of the field, the authors investigate the broader aims of Australian nuclear policy and detail how successive Australian governments have engaged with nuclear issues since 1945. Through its holistic approach, the book demonstrates the logic of seemingly conflicting policy positions at the heart of Australian nuclear policy, including simultaneous reliance on US extended deterrence and the pursuit of nuclear disarmament. Such apparent contradictions highlight the complex relationships between different ends and means of nuclear policy. How successive Australian governments of different political shades have attempted to reconcile these in their nuclear policy over time is a central part of the history and future of Australia’s engagement with the nuclear fuel cycle.
Author: Ranginui Walker
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780862328146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew O'Neil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-02
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1136693602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the end of the Cold War, significant attention has focussed on the issue of nuclear deterrence and in particular whether formal nuclear security guarantees from nuclear weapons states to non-nuclear weapons states involving the possible use of nuclear weapons have a place in the twenty-first century global strategic landscape. Growing support for nuclear disarmament in the US and elsewhere has seen serious doubts being raised about the ongoing utility of extended nuclear deterrence. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the way in which extended nuclear deterrence operates in contemporary Asia. It addresses the following key questions: What does the role of extended nuclear deterrence in Asia tell us about the broader role of extended nuclear deterrence in the contemporary international system? Is this role likely to change significantly in the years ahead? O’Neil uses a theoretical and historical framework to analyse the contemporary and future dynamics of extended nuclear deterrence in Asia and challenges many of the existing orthodox perspectives on the topic. Providing a new perspective on debates surrounding extended nuclear deterrence, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Asian politics, international relations and security studies, but also to policy makers and professionals.
Author: Michael Pugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0521343550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The development of nuclear weapons has been a critical problem for the NATO alliance. In the Pacific, a region of increasing strategic interest for the United States and Soviet Union, nuclear weapons have been an environmental concern since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Opposition to nuclear tests has now been taken a step further with the creation of a South pacific Nuclear Free Zone and the decision by a New Zealand Government to ban port visits by vessels believed to be carrying nuclear weapons. New Zealand's proposal to back its policy with legislation had been seen by the Reagan and Thatcher administrations as a threat to the principle of 'neither confirm nor deny' the presence of nuclear weapons on vessels. This 1989 study examines the questions of principle at issue, the evolution of the ANZUS crisis, its implications for the Western alliance structure as a whole, and the degree to which the 'nuclear-free' virus' in the South Pacific might be catching.
Author: Stephan Frühling
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-08-03
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1526150719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the dawn of the atomic age to today, nuclear weapons have been central to the internal dynamics of US alliances in Europe and Asia. But nuclear weapons cooperation in US alliances has varied significantly between allies and over time. This book explores the history of America’s nuclear posture worldwide, delving into alliance structures and interaction during and since the end of the Cold War to uncover the underlying dynamics of nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies. Combining in-depth empirical analysis with an accessible theoretical lens, the book reveals that US allies have wielded significant influence in shaping nuclear weapons cooperation with the US in ways that reflect their own, often idiosyncratic, objectives. Alliances are ecosystems of exchange rather than mere tools of external balancing, the book argues, and institutional perspectives can offer an unprecedented insight into how structured cooperation can promote policy convergence.
Author: Peter Dean
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Published: 2016-11-14
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0522868622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jacob Bercovitch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1988-06-18
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1349088706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The issues involved in this book are complex and go to the heart of how alliances, the basic units of the current structure of international security, should function.
Author: Allan S. Krass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-20
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 100020054X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.