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Title

The last chance : nuclear proliferation and arms control / William Epstein.

Author

Epstein, William, 1912-2001.

Publication

New York : Free Press, ©1976.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 341 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A study of the growing threat of nuclear catastrophe brought about by the increasing numbers of nations with nuclear weapons.

Subject

• Nuclear nonproliferation
• Nuclear disarmament
• Nuclear disarmament
• Nuclear nonproliferation
• Kernwaffe
• Nonproliferation

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

The basic dilemma -- Atoms for war: The proliferation of nuclear weapons -- Atoms for peace: The proliferation of nuclear power reactors and plutonium -- Steps leading to the non-proliferation regime -- The making of the non-proliferation treaty (The NPT) -- Analysis of the non-proliferation treaty -- The politics of nuclear non-proliferation -- Why the non-proliferation treaty was approved -- The "forgotten conference" of the non-nuclear states -- Has the security of non-nuclear states been ensured? -- How good are international safeguards? -- Have the peaceful uses of nuclear energy been facilitated? -- What about peaceful nuclear explosions? -- Stopping the nuclear arms race? -- Nuclear-free zones -- The Nth-country problem again: India's nuclear explosion -- The danger of proliferation to additional states -- Failure at the NPT Review conference -- The danger of proliferation to terrorists and criminals -- Man is an endangered species -- Appendix I: Chronology of the development of nuclear weapons and of arms control measures -- Appendix II: Treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water (the PTB treaty) -- Appendix III: Treaty for the prohibition of nuclear weapons in Latin America (The Treaty of Tlatelolco) -- Appendix IV: Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (the NPT) -- Appendix V: Status of the non-prolliferation treaty, January 1, 1976 -- Appendix VI: List of proposed measures to strengthen the non-prolilferation treaty.

ISBN

• 0029096618
• 9780029096611

LCCN

75022765

OCLC

• ocm01993045
• 1993045
• SCSB-2085282

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library