Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium

Policy and Global Affairs,National Academy of Sciences,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Office of International Affairs

ISBN 10: 0309050421 / ISBN 13: 9780309050425

Published by National Academies Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309050421
• ISBN 13: 9780309050425
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Within the next decade, many thousands of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons are slated to be retired as a result of nuclear arms reduction treaties and unilateral pledges. A hundred tons or more of plutonium and tons of highly enriched uranium will no longer be needed. The management and disposition of these fissile materials, the essential ingredients of nuclear weapons, pose urgent challenges for international security.

This book offers recommendations for all phases of the problem, from dismantlement of excess warheads, through intermediate storage of the fissle materials they contain, to ultimate disposition of the plutonium.

From the Back Cover

With the end of the Cold War, the United States and the republics of the former Soviet Union have undertaken arms control on an unprecedented scale. What to do with the fissile materials from the tens of thousands of nuclear weapons to be dismantled has become a pressing problem for international security. Limits on access to these materials are the primary technical barrier to acquisition of nuclear weapons in the world today.