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Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century
An authoritative and unbiased guide to nuclear technology and the controversies that surround it. Are you for nuclear power or against it? What's the basis of your opinion? Did you know a CT scan gives you some 2 millisieverts of radiation? Do you know how much a millisievert is? Does irradiation make foods safer or less safe? What is the point of a bilateral Russia-US nuclear weapons treaty in a multipolar world? These are nuclear questions that call for nuclear choices, and this book equips citizens to make these choices informed ones. It explains, clearly and accessibly, the basics of nuclear technology and describes the controversies surrounding its use.
The Bigger Picture
South Korea's reliance on nuclear energy has brought about one very negative consequence: an accumulation of spent nuclear fuel. This study examines pyroprocessing and the development of safe and comprehensive ways of dealing with spent fuel. It concludes that, even under the most optimistic scenario, pyroprocessing and the associated fast reactors will not be available options for dealing with South Korea's spent fuel on a large scale for several decades. Seoul will need to find other options, most urgently for managing spent fuel in the short- to medium-term, as well as permanently, to cope with the proper management of its spent fuel or the high-level waste that will remain after pyroprocessing.
Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Civil Society and NGOs in U.S. - China Relations
This annual report on U.S.-China Relations is a project of The Carter Center with generous support from the Ford Foundation and the National Association of Chinese Americans in Atlanta. The Grandview Institution, a think tank based in Beijing, is a partner for this project. For more information on the Carter Center, please check its website at https://cartercenter.org/. For more information on the Grandview Institution, please check its website at http://www.grandview.cn/. For media inquiries or questions, please contact soyia.ellison@cartercenter.org. URLs for The Carter Center websites on U.S.-China relations are: English Language website: https://uscnpm.org/ Chinese
The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security
The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security provides a comprehensive examination of efforts to secure sensitive nuclear assets and mitigate the risk of nuclear terrorism and other non-state actor threats. It aims to provide the reader with a holistic understanding of nuclear security through exploring its legal, political, and technical dimensions at the international, national, and organizational levels. Recognizing there is no one-size-fits-all approach to nuclear security, the book explores fundamental elements and concepts in practice through a number of case studies which showcase how and why national and organizational approaches have diverged. Although focused on critiquing past and curre...
Apocalypse Television
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie The Day After premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear attack with vivid scenes of the post-apocalyptic hellscape that would follow. The film was viewed by over 100 million Americans and remains the highest rated TV movie in history. After the premiere, ABC News aired an episode of Viewpoint, a live special featuring some of the most prominent public intellectuals of the debating the virtues of the Arms Race and the prospect of a winnable nuclear war. The response to the film proved more powerful than perhaps any film or television program in the his...
Leveraging Latency
"Leveraging Latency explores how the weak coerce the strong with nuclear technology. Allies and adversaries alike can compel concessions from superpowers by threatening to acquire atomic weapons. When does nuclear latency-the technical capacity to build the bomb-enable states to pursue this coercive strategy? The conventional wisdom is that compellence with nuclear latency works when states are close to the bomb. But this intuitive notion is wrong. Tristan Volpe finds that more latency seldom translates into greater bargaining advantages. He reveals how coercion creates a tradeoff between making threats and assurances credible. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten prolife...
Nuclear Governance in the Asia-Pacific
The contributors to this book explore approaches to building a framework for nuclear governance in the Asia-Pacific – encompassing nuclear safety, security, and safeguards/non-proliferation. Nuclear governance collaboration offers an avenue for states in the Asia-Pacific to tackle the emerging opportunities for and challenges to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and the civilian applications of nuclear and radioactive materials. The nature of national actions, bilateral initiatives and regional cooperation in capacity building taking place in East Asia provides a good foundation to pursue a more robust collaborative framework for nuclear governance in the wider Asia-Pacific region. The contributors to this book explore the most critical nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation issues faced by states in the Asia-Pacific and the growing cooperation spearheaded by Southeast Asian countries, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. This book is a valuable read for academics working on security and strategic studies, international relations, non-traditional security issues as well as nuclear-related issues.
Nuclear Security 2012
Ⅰ. Nuclear Summit 2012 and U.S.-ROK Strategic Cooperation/ Jae H. Ku, Jung-Ho Bae Ⅱ. The Evolution of U.S. Nuclear Strategy: From Massive Retaliation to the Nuclear Posture Review/ Thomas M. Nichols Ⅲ. The Current Status of the Non-Proliferation Regime/ Yong shik Choo Ⅳ. Combating North Korea´s Nuclear Blackmail: Proactive Deterrence and the Triad System/ Taewoo Kim Ⅴ. Three States, Three Stories: Comparing Iran, Syria and North Korea´s Nuclear Programs/ Jim Walsh Ⅵ. South Asia and the Strategic Implications of Nuclear Weapons/ Walter Andersen Ⅶ. Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors: Issues for Concern/ Sharon K. Weiner Ⅷ. New Nuclear Renaissance: Challenges for Nuclear Non-Proliferation?/ Jae Jeok Park Ⅸ. China´s Way to Go Nuclear/ Teng Jianqun Ⅹ. ROK-U.S. Strategic Cooperation/ Young-Ho Park
