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Nuclear Exits: Countries foregoing the nuclear option book cover

1st Edition

Nuclear Exits Countries foregoing the nuclear option

Edited By Ilkka Taipale, Vappu Taipale Copyright 2015
96 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

90 Pages
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Many countries have the capacity to construct nuclear weapons - even relatively poor and small ones, as the North Korean example shows us. So far, only one country - South Africa – has voluntarily given up its nuclear weapons programme. Three others - Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus - gave up the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons after the end of the Cold War. A number of others (including... Read more

1. Nuclear exit – in our lifetime  Ilkka Taipale

2. The importance of rejecting the Gollum’s ring of nuclear power: speech to the nuclear exits conference, Helsinki, 18 October 2013  F.W. de Klerk

3. Initial inventory negotiations between the IAEA and the Republic of South Africa, 1991: personal reflections on a nuclear exit  Juha Rautjärvi

4. The Middle East as a weapons of mass destruction-free zone  Jayantha Dhanapala

5. Forgoing the nuclear option: states that could build nuclear weapons but chose not to do so  Sico van der Meer

6. Scholarly research on nuclear exits: the role of civil society  Maria Rost Rublee

7. From nuclear weapons acquisition to nuclear disarmament – the Swedish case  Thomas Jonter and Emma Rosengren

8. The Swiss nuclear bomb dream  Andreas Nidecker

9. Nuclear-enmeshed Australia: an obstacle to nuclear weapons eradication  Tilman A. Ruff

Biography

Vappu Taipale is a child psychiatrist, former minister of health and social affairs in Finland. She is also a member and chair of the United Nations University Council, Honorary President, International Society for Gerontechnology, co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) 2008-2012 and chair, of the Union for Senior Services in Finland.

Ilkka Taipale is a social psychiatrist. He was a member of Parliament in 1971-75 and 2000-07, and of Helsinki City Council 1969–80 and from 1993 onwards. He has edited books on peace, war and social medicine. Titles include War or Health (2001), and One Hundred Social Innovations from Finland, in English (2007). His works have been published in no less than twenty languages.

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