Eliminating Nuclear Threats

Eliminating Nuclear Threats
Title Eliminating Nuclear Threats PDF eBook
Author International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
Publisher
Pages 294
Release 2009
Genre Nuclear disarmament
ISBN 9781921612145

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Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
Title Eliminating Nuclear Weapons PDF eBook
Author Tom Sauer
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 0
Release 2011-05-17
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780199327539

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This is an up-to-date analysis of the movement to eliminate nuclear weapons. It considers the range of nuclear weapon states (USA, UK, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and likely Iran) and systematically examines the theory of deterrence.

The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament

The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament
Title The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament PDF eBook
Author Tim Street
Publisher
Pages
Release 2021-03
Genre
ISBN 9780367491291

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"This book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for the five official Nuclear Weapon States (NWS): China; France; Russia; the UK; and US to eliminate their nuclear weapons"--

The Opportunity

The Opportunity
Title The Opportunity PDF eBook
Author Steven Pifer
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 260
Release 2012-10-05
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0815724306

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For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington today and enhance both American and global security. Pifer and O'Hanlon make a compelling case for further arms control measures—to reduce the nuclear threat to the United States and its allies, to strengthen strategic stability, to promote greater transparency regarding secretive nuclear arsenals, to create the possibility for significant defense budget savings, to bolster American credibility in the fight to curb nuclear proliferation, and to build a stronger and more sustainable U.S.-Russia relationship. President Obama gave priority to nuclear arms control early in his first term and, by all accounts, would like to be transformational on these questions. Can there be another major U.S.-Russia arms treaty? Can the tactical and surplus strategic nuclear warheads that have so far escaped controls be brought into such a framework? Can a modus vivendi be reached between the two countries on missile defense? And what of multilateral accords on nuclear testing and production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons? Pifer and O'Hanlon concisely frame the issues, the background, and the choices facing the president; provide practical policy recommendations, and put it all in clear and readable prose that will be easily understood by the layman.

The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Title The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy PDF eBook
Author Committee on International Security and Arms Control
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 119
Release 1997-07-01
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0309518377

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The debate about appropriate purposes and policies for U.S. nuclear weapons has been under way since the beginning of the nuclear age. With the end of the Cold War, the debate has entered a new phase, propelled by the post-Cold War transformations of the international political landscape. This volume--based on an exhaustive reexamination of issues addressed in The Future of the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Relationship (NRC, 1991)--describes the state to which U.S. and Russian nuclear forces and policies have evolved since the Cold War ended. The book evaluates a regime of progressive constraints for future U.S. nuclear weapons policy that includes further reductions in nuclear forces, changes in nuclear operations to preserve deterrence but enhance operational safety, and measures to help prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons. In addition, it examines the conditions and means by which comprehensive nuclear disarmament could become feasible and desirable.

The Nuclear Ban Treaty

The Nuclear Ban Treaty
Title The Nuclear Ban Treaty PDF eBook
Author Ramesh Thakur
Publisher Routledge
Pages 254
Release 2021-12-21
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1000516938

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The contributors to this book describe, discuss, and evaluate the normative reframing brought about by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Ban Treaty), taking you on a journey through its genesis and negotiation history to the shape of the emerging global nuclear order. Adopted by the United Nations on 7 July 2017, the Ban Treaty came into effect on 22 January 2021. For advocates and supporters, weapons that were always immoral are now also illegal. To critics, it represents a profound threat to the stability of the existing global nuclear order with the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty as the normative anchor. As the most significant leap in nuclear disarmament in fifty years and a rare case study of successful state-civil society partnership in multilateral diplomacy, the Ban Treaty challenges the established order. The book’s contributors are leading experts on the Ban Treaty, including senior scholars, policymakers and civil society activists. A vital guide to the Ban Treaty for students of nuclear disarmament, arms control and diplomacy as well as for policymakers in those fields.

Nuclear Security

Nuclear Security
Title Nuclear Security PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Hoover Institution Press
Pages 73
Release 2014-09-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0817918051

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Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear weapons and ensure the safety of the nuclear enterprise of weapons and reactors against catastrophic accidents. The distinguished contributors, all known for their long-standing interest in getting better control of the threats posed by nuclear weapons and reactors, discuss what we can learn from past successes and failures and attempt to identify the key ingredients for a road ahead that can lead us toward a world free of nuclear weapons. The authors review historical efforts to deal with the challenge of nuclear weapons, with a focus on the momentous arms control negotiations between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. They offer specific recommendations for reducing risks that should be adopted by the nuclear enterprise, both military and civilian, in the United States and abroad. Since the risks posed by the nuclear enterprise are so high, they conclude, no reasonable effort should be spared to ensure safety and security.