Nuclear Power without Nuclear Proliferation?

• Published in: Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 138; no. 4; pp. 7 - 18
• Main Authors: Miller, Steven E., Sagan, Scott D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA The MIT Press 22-09-2009; MIT Press; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Subjects: Arms control; Arms control & disarmament; Climate change; Cold wars; Disarmament; Government regulation; Nuclear energy; Nuclear fuels; Nuclear nonproliferation; Nuclear power; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear proliferation; Nuclear terrorism; Nuclear weapons; on the global nuclear future; Political debate; Politics; Russian language; Treaties; Weapons
• ISSN: 0011-5266; 1548-6192
• DOI: 10.1162/daed.2009.138.4.7

Will new international or regional mechanisms be developed to control the front-end (the production of nuclear reactor fuel) and the back-end (the management of spent fuel containing plutonium) of the nuclear fuel cycle? The 1991 volume did have more international authors, with a leading Russian nuclear strategist, Andrei Kokoshin (who was soon to become a senior Ministry of Defense official), contributing an essay, along with articles by leading European arms control specialists Lawrence Freedman and Johan Jørgen Holst.13 Many of the specific arms control topics addressed in the volume, such as the conventional weapons balance in Europe and the spread of chemical weapons, are simply no longer as significant a concern today as they were in the waning years of the Cold War and the start of a new, uncertain era in international politics.