1st Edition
Power Plays Enriched Uranium and Homeland Security
By Christopher Hubbard
Copyright 2010
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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A comprehensive exploration of how national and state security policy is effected by the production, storage, transportation, safeguarding, export and use of enriched uranium - and, by extension, plutonium. A wide range of geopolitical, security and technical issues are examined, as are the challenges presented to national and global governance. This book contributes to a new understanding of... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Enriched Uranium and Homeland Security; Chapter 2 Securing the Homeland, Securing the World; Chapter 3 The International Institutional Framework; Chapter 4 Assessing Security Threats Inherent in Nuclear Fuels; Chapter 5 The Historical Record: Failure and Success; Chapter 6 Strategic Security and Enriched Uranium; Chapter 7 Nuclear Terrorism and Enriched Uranium; Chapter 8 Old and New Strategies for Non-proliferation Progress; Chapter 9 The Future: Alternative Policy Pathways for the Twenty-first Century; Chapter 10 Conclusions: Global Threats and Opportunities;
Biography
Christopher Hubbard is a Senior Lecturer, International Relations and Security, School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
'...reflects on the forty years of nuclear history since the NPT and argues that the world must have a rules-based nuclear order and one in which enriched uranium and plutonium can be guaranteed by international cooperation to the growing number of countries that are turning to nuclear power. Herein lies an important response to climate change, terrorism and weapons proliferation.' Wayne Reynolds, Newcastle University, Australia
