Designing denuclearization : an interpretive encyclopedia /
Bruce D. Larkin
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2008
- xviii, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-416) and index
Introduction -- The transition problem -- The concealed retained weapons problem -- The concealed clandestine program problem -- The problem posed by dissimilar non-nuclear capabilities -- The problem of retained capacity for reconstitution -- The problem of ongoing design -- The problem of compensatory non-nuclear arming -- The problem of joint simultaneous decision -- The problem of regime enforcement -- The problem that ZNW today would enhance the relative power of the conventionally powerful -- The objection that conventional war will become more probable -- The objection that nuclear devices serve missions other than nuclear deterrence -- The objection that an advantage is being surrendered -- The obstacle of patrio-opportunism -- The obstacle of perceived interest -- The objection that--given uncertainties--only self-reliance assures security -- The objection that a nuclear abolition regime will prove unenforceable -- The objection that nuclear weapons can be safely retained and prudently managed -- The objection that ZNW is unrealistic -- The Manhattan Project scientists and proposals for international control -- The Acheson-Lilienthal report (16 March 1946) -- The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission -- The Eisenhower administration -- The Kennedy administration : U.S., Russian, and Chinese proposals of 1961-1963 -- Zones -- The Gorbachev initiative of 15 January 1986 -- Reykjavik -- The Canberra Commission report (14 August 1996) -- Model nuclear weapons convention -- The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), NPT review conferences, and the New Agenda Coalition -- Landmark post-Cold War declarations, commentaries, and advocacy initiatives -- The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission -- Nuclear security project -- Warhead and fissile material accounting -- Verification -- Whistle-blowing and'societal verification' -- Systematic and open modeling -- Simultaneous move to zero -- Transparence -- Review and dispute resolution procedures -- Governmental and intergovernmental research units -- Non-state research centers -- Designing negotiability -- Focused talks -- Nine tests --'Collaborative governance' vs.'sovereign unilateralism' -- Active reassurance -- Conventional force limits -- Collective security -- Detargeting -- Dealerting -- HEU control and buydown -- India and Pakistan : non-weaponization and non-deployment --'No first use' or'only for deterrence'? -- Projects on denuclearization design -- Empirical examples of denuclearization design -- Paths as I see them.
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