POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Fissile Material, International Atomic Energy Agency, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
13 Mar 2019
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Nuclear weapons proliferation: wmds, non-proliferation treaty, debates about nuclear proliferation. The international atomic energy agency (iaea), 1957 is tasked with ensuring that non-nuclear weapons countries which have nuclear power plants do not divert fissile material and use it to build nuclear weapons. First nuclear age: 1945-1989/1991 fall of the soviet union. Second nuclear age: post-1991; change from vertical proliferation (among nuclear powers) to horizontal proliferation (increasing number of nuclear powers: nuclear deterrence: a strategy designed to dissuade an adversary from doing what it would otherwise do. The treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (npt) Treaty signed by vast majority of sovereign states, currently 191; 1968, effective 1970/renewed. 1995: based on three pillars, non-proliferation (5 states/p5/ us, russia, uk, france, china- allowed" to possess nuclear weapons; they are not to transfer nuclear weapons to other states or non-npt parties, disarmament, right to peacefully use nuclear technology.
