The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies.

Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation is a complex subject of immense and abiding global concern. This encyclopaedia covers the gamut of nuclear arms, their proliferation and non-proliferation, nuclear accidents and their management, a holistic view...

<P>Rising concern over the increasing threat of nuclear war impelled the 2017 United Nations (UN) negotiations and adoption by 122 UN member states of a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The Treaty seeks to ban nuclear weapons globally...