PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Nuclear Proliferation, Plutonium
Nuclear Disarmament Guest Lecture - Opportunities, Obstacles, and Requirements
● Ultimately very little utility in nuclear weapons
● Suicidal people are usually ones detonating
● Unease there could be accidental use of a nuclear weapons (could be started on basis
of false attack)
1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference Statement of Principles and Objectives → Goal of
eliminating nuclear weapons
Conditions for a world without nuclear weapons (?)
NATO: create conditions for world without nuclear weapons in accordance with goals of nuclear
non proliferation treaty
UN secretary general 5 point plan
Kissinger, Shultz, Perry, and Nunn
NO MORE HIROSHIMAS - objective
● Nuclear technology - is there to be used and is to be promoted (will be around for long
time) - if you can create fuel for power stations can create fuel for nuclear weapons
(uranium enrichment/extracting plutonium) → ARTICLE 4 (right to research, production
and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes)
● Prohibit nuclear weapons - peak in amount of nuclear weapons in mid 1980s, most in
US and Russia, has been major reduction in amount, now around 14000 total (about
8/9000 are useable) → ARTICLE 6 (pursue negotiations in good faith, treaty on general
and complete disarmament)
○ Basic nuclear disarmament agenda
■ No more testing
■ No more production of fissile materials for weapons purposes
■ Reduce existing arsenals
■ Reduce risk of use of nuclear weapons in existing arsenals
■ Fix dysfunctional disarmament machinery
■ Universality
● Safeguards/enforcements - verifying other two principles → ARTICLE 3
○ The basic nonproliferation imperatives
■ Additional protocol
■ Multilateral control/management of fuel cycle
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Document Summary
Nuclear disarmament guest lecture - opportunities, obstacles, and requirements. Ultimately very little utility in nuclear weapons. Unease there could be accidental use of a nuclear weapons (could be started on basis of false attack) 1995 npt review and extension conference statement of principles and objectives goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. Conditions for a world without nuclear weapons (?) Nato: create conditions for world without nuclear weapons in accordance with goals of nuclear non proliferation treaty. Prohibit nuclear weapons - peak in amount of nuclear weapons in mid 1980s, most in. Us and russia, has been major reduction in amount, now around 14000 total (about. 8/9000 are useable) article 6 (pursue negotiations in good faith, treaty on general and complete disarmament) No more production of fissile materials for weapons purposes. Reduce risk of use of nuclear weapons in existing arsenals. Safeguards/enforcements - verifying other two principles article 3. *** nuclear non-proliferation treaty - negotiated 1968 came into force in 1970s.
