A Nuclear-weapon-free World

Desirable? Feasible?
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-15953-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

This book provides an outline of the essential provisions of a nuclear-weapon-free world treaty and the inevitable problems of enforcement. It presents the study and debates in wide sectors of the community on the ways and means by which nuclear weapons might eventually be eliminated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rotblat, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Executive Overview Part A: Historical Review 1. Past Attempts to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Part B: Desirability of a NWFW 2. Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War Carl Kaysen 3. A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: is It Desirable? is It Necessary? Part C: Feasibility of a NWFW 4. Technological Problems of Verification 5. The Breakout Problem 6. Societal Verification 7. A NWFW Regime: Treaty for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons 8. Verification and Enforcement in a NWFW 9. International Security in a NWFW 10. Making Nuclear Weapons Illegal Part D: Alternative Routes to a NWFW 11. Nuclear Weapons for the United Nations? 12. An International Nuclear Security Force 13. An Asymptotic Approach to a NWFW Part E: Intermediate Steps 14. Approaches Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Rotblat (UK). Physics. Emeritus Professor at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London. Worked on the atom bomb during World War II in Liverpool and Los Alamos. Signatory of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Jack Steinberger (Switzerland). Physics. Galilean Professor of Physics, Scuola Normale, Pisa. Nobel Laureate in Physics. Former Professor, Columbia University, New York and senior researcher at CERN. Bhalchandra M. Udgaonkar (India). Physics. Emeritus Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Former President, Indian Academy of Social Sciences and Special Adviser and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission.