Designing denuclearization : an interpretive encyclopedia / Bruce D. Larkin.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larkin, Bruce D., 1936-
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Nuclear disarmament > Encyclopedias.
Nuclear nonproliferation > Encyclopedias.
International organization > Encyclopedias.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Physical Description:xviii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.