Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Reviews costs and benefits of nuclear programs involving Defense Dept and nuclear industries.
AEC Authorizing Legislation, Fiscal Year 1967: General; special nuclear materials; raw materials; reactor development (except civilian power and cooperative power reactor categories); and space nuclear systems, January 25, February 15, and March 4 and 8, 1966
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Reviews costs and benefits of nuclear programs involving Defense Dept and nuclear industries.
AEC Authorizing Legislation, Fiscal Year 1967
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Reviews costs and benefits of nuclear programs involving Defense Dept and nuclear industries.
AEC Authorizing Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1826
Book Description
AEC Authorizing Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Shooting Down a "Star": Program 437, the US Nuclear ASAT System and Present-Day Copycat Killers
Author: Clayton K. S. ChunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
Author: Allan S. KrassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100020054X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Rickover and the Nuclear Navy
Author: Francis DuncanPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An official Atomic Energy Commission historian assigned to Admiral Rickover's office, Duncan draws on files, documents, and interviews to chronicle the introduction of nuclear powered ships into the US Navy. Covers the period from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program
Author: David AlbrightPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781536845655
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In 1989, South Africa made the momentous decision to abandon its nuclear weapons, making it the first and still the only country that has produced nuclear weapons and given them up. Over thirty years, the apartheid regime had created a remarkably sophisticated capability to build nuclear weapons-both the nuclear warhead and advanced military systems to deliver them. The program was born in secret and remained so until its end. The government initially sought to dismantle it in secret. It hoped to avoid any negative international consequences of possessing nuclear weapons. The apartheid government's strategy did not work, because too many intelligence agencies knew about South Africa's nuclear weapons. Faced with intense pressure, South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk reversed course and adopted a policy of transparency in 1993. However, he decided to hide many of its aspects. Nonetheless, most of the remaining secrets emerged over the ensuing 25 years. Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program draws on previously secret information to provide the first comprehensive, technically-oriented look at South Africa's nuclear weapons program; how it grew, evolved, and ended. It also finds lessons for today's nuclear proliferation cases.
