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Power Plays: Enriched Uranium and Homeland Security
Author(s): Christopher Hubbard (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28 May 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 210 pages
- ISBN-10: 0754676935
- ISBN-13: 9780754676935
Book Description
A comprehensive exploration of how national and state security policy is effected by the production, storage, transportation, safeguarding, export and use of enriched uranium – and, by extension, plutonium. A wide range of geopolitical, security and technical issues are examined, as are the challenges presented to national and global governance. This book contributes to a new understanding of one of the most serious security implications inherent in the current rapid growth in nuclear power generation. It assesses attempts made to deal with the latent dangers to Homeland Security posed by potential misuse of enriched uranium and plutonium, considering both the chances for success, and the costs of failure.
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Review
‘…reflects on the forty years of nuclear history since the NPT and argues that the world must have a rules-based nuclear order and one in which enriched uranium and plutonium can be guaranteed by international cooperation to the growing number of countries that are turning to nuclear power. Herein lies an important response to climate change, terrorism and weapons proliferation.’ Wayne Reynolds, Newcastle University, Australia
About the Author
Christopher Hubbard is a Senior Lecturer, International Relations and Security, School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
