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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Serious Rules for Nuclear Power Without Proliferation

Serious Rules for Nuclear Power Without Proliferation

 

Abstract

The authors propose five principles for addressing the major deficiencies of the current treaty-based approach to nonproliferation. These involve: effectively closing the door to withdrawals from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT); defining which nuclear technologies fall within the NPT's “inalienable right” provision, so as to maintain a reasonable safety margin against possible military application; expansion of International Atomic Energy Agency inspections to include greater readiness to use its “special” inspection authority; creation of an NPT enforcement regime, to include a secretariat; and universalizing the NPT so as to apply to all states, while creating a path for current non-parties to come into compliance. There is no illusion here about the prospects for the adoption of this approach. At a minimum, the world needs to be frank about the gap between nuclear programs and current nonproliferation protection. Encouragement of greater use of nuclear power should be predicated on closing that gap.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2014.880268#.UxHt4oWGeVo

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10736700.2014.880268#.UxHtkoWGeVo

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