Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

<p>A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.</p><p>This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament notably the international non-proliferation regime and how to implement its disarmament provisions. </p><p>Discussing the requirements of a new international consensus on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation this book builds on the three pillars of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT): non-proliferation disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy. It reviews the impact of Cold War and post-Cold War policies on current disarmament initiatives and analyses contemporary proliferation problems: how to deal with the states that never joined the NPT (India Pakistan and Israel); how states that have been moving toward nuclear weapons have been brought back to non-nuclear-weapon status; and in particular how to deal with Iran and North Korea. The analysis centres on the relationship between disarmament and non-proliferation in an increasingly multi-centric world involving China and India as well as the US the European powers and Russia. It concludes with a description and discussion of three different worlds without nuclear weapons and their implications for nuclear disarmament policies. </p><p>This book will be of great interest to all students of arms control strategic studies war and conflict studies and IR/security studies in general</p><p><strong>Sverre Lodgaard</strong> is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Oslo</p>