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Despite the largely political origins of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the nuclear diplomacy of the 1970s, described in detail by Wilmshurst in Chapter 1, focused rather more on technical than on political means for limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. This diplomacy was also chiefly concerned with universally applicable measures which ideally would stop — not simply slow or contain — nuclear proliferation, rather than specific measures aimed at particular countries.
P. Gummett is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science and Technology Policy and Co-ordinator of the Programme of Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (PREST) at the University of Manchester. He teaches courses on politics and technology, and is the author of Scientists in Whitehall (Manchester University Press, 1980).
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M. J. Brenner, Nuclear Power and Non-Proliferation: The Remaking of US Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) ch. 2.
See J. Simpson, ‘Global Non-Proliferation Policies: Retrospect and Prospect’, Review of International Studies, vol. 8, 1982, p. 82.
See F. C. Williams and D. A. Deese (eds), Nuclear Non-Proliferation: The Spent Fuel Problem ( Oxford: Pergamon, 1979);
G. I. Rochlin, Plutonium, Power and Politics: International Arrangements for the Disposition of Spent Nuclear Fuel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979); and several of the chapters in Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Internationalization to Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons ( London: Taylor & Francis, 1980).
See L. A. Dunn, ‘Some Reflections on the Dove’s Dilemma’, in G. H. Quester (ed.), Nuclear Proliferation: Breaking the Chain ( Madison: University of Wisonsin Press, 1981).
See G. I. Rochlin, ‘The Development and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons in a Proliferating World’, in J. K. King (ed.), International Political Effects of the Spead of Nuclear Weapons ( Washington DC: USGPO, 1979) p. 22.
L. Beaton, Must the Bomb Spread? ( London: Nicholls, 1966).
For example, T. B. Taylor in M. Willrich (ed.), International Safeguards and the Nuclear Industry ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973);
M. Willrich and T. B. Taylor, Nuclear Theft: Risks and Safeguards ( Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1974);
J. Maddox, ‘Prospects for Nuclear Proliferation’, Adelphi Paper no. 113 (London: IISS, 1975); and B. M. Jenkins, ‘The Consequences of Nuclear Terrorism’, in King (ed.), International Political Effects of the Spread of Nuclear Weapons.
E. Davenport, P. Eddy and P. Gillman, The Plumbat Affair ( London: André Deutsch, 1978).
P. Pringle and J. Spigelman, The Nuclear Barons ( London: Michael Joseph, 1982) pp. 297–8.
See especially L. A. Dunn and W. H. Overholt, ‘The Next Phase in Nuclear Proliferation Research’ Orbis, vol. 20, summer 1976, pp. 497–524.
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Gummett, P. (1984). Academic Perspectives on the Non-Proliferation Problem. In: Simpson, J., McGrew, A.G. (eds) The International Nuclear Non-Proliferation System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07722-9_4
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