Introduction Push and pull factors in military consumption 2. Development 01 lIrnlf procuremenlllnd arms trade Procu rement expenditure Consequences for production Global arms exports: On the rise again? 3. Technological changes Dual-use technologies Future military technologies 4. Pressures to internaliollalizeversus natiollal orientation The pressure to internationalize International a rms pr...

in december 1953, the us president, general dwight d. eisenhower delivered his “atoms for peace” speech at the united nations' general assembly, which called for the promotion of peaceful uses of nuclear energy under special international agency. this proposal became the starting point for creating the iaea in 1957 and adopting npt in 1968. the atoms for peace initiative established the pr...

Future arms-control and disarmament treaties could place numerical limits on all categories of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of weapon states, including tactical weapons, non-deployed weapons, and weapons awaiting dismantlement. Verification of such agreements is likely to require new types of inspection equipment — but also new verification protocols. This paper offers a set of definitions a...

France ended fissile material production for military purposes in the 1990s and has started to decommission and dismantle its production facilities at Marcoule and Pierrelatte. This paper provides an overview of the French production complex and presents new estimates of historic fissile-material production, which include neutronics calculations for the production reactors at Marcoule. The anal...

Negotiated deeper cuts in the nuclear arsenals may place limits on the total number of nuclear weapons in states’ stockpiles, which could require inspections on hundreds or thousands of warheads or warhead components currently in storage or in dismantlement queues. The process of authenticating treaty limited items, e.g. with passive or active radiation measurements, is likely to be a critical ...

The global politics of nuclear disarmament has become deeply contested over the past decade, particularly around negotiation 2017 Treaty on Prohibition Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Different explanations are offered, but these tend to centre geopolitics ‘security environment’ conceived in realist terms. This article makes sense TPNW and by examining its underlying discourse contestation within a wid...