Perkovich Georg, George Perkovich, James Acton

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

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Produktbeschreibung

This paper examine the challenges that exist to abolishing nuclear weapons completely, and suggest what can be done now to start overcoming them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 195g
• ISBN-13: 9780415465830
• ISBN-10: 0415465834
• Artikelnr.: 23604740

Autorenporträt

George Perkovich is a vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of its non-proliferation programme. He is the author of the award-winning India's Nuclear Bomb (Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2001 edition) and lead author of Universal Compliance (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005). He has testified on nuclear affairs before the US Senate and House of Representatives and has participated in numerous governmental and non-governmental multinational initiatives to reduce the risk of nuclear war. James M. Acton, a physicist by training, was a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London until August 2008. Before that he was the science and technology researcher at the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC). His research to date has focused on IAEA safeguards and, while at VERTIC, he participated in the UK-Norway dialogue on verifying nuclear disarmament. He has published in a number of journals and newspapers, including Survival, the Nonproliferation Review and the New York Times.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Establishing Political Conditions to Enhance the
Feasibility of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons 2.Verifying the Transition to
Zero 3. Managing the Nuclear Industry in a World without Nuclear Weapons 4.
Enforcement 5. Hedging and Managing Nuclear Expertise in the Transition to
Zero and After Conclusions Appendix: Key Suggestions and Questions