International Security and Global Proliferation

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International security and nuclear proliferation. Nuclear proliferation  Nuclear proliferation is a hot-button issue in the 20th and 21st centuries  Nuclear Weapons = power  The membership in Nuclear Club is still too attractive A concept of deterrence definition: a bluff in “higher circles”  Deterrence was an inalienable feature of the Cold War System  A need of shift from deterrence to cooperation and interaction  A new challenge – extremist groups  A concept of deterrence  (continue) Extremists don’t respect the system of negotiations, they just work  A threat of possession NW by terrorists  As a consequence – a sensitization of violent methods of squaring the situation  A break in Antiterrorist Camp Nuclear Club expansion  The concept of “Realpolitik” is living  Iraq and NW: US secret service bluffed  NPT-treaty is of great value  NW is a threat to the world, not only to the concrete state Atomic power Reuters, ITAR-TASS, IAEA materials Atomic energetic ratio of national energy field, % 76 France Lithuania 73 57 53 47 45 42 41 39 38 33 32 31 28 22 20 15 Is there any alternative to atomic power today?  The most profitable power nowadays  Belgium Slovakia Ukraine Bulgaria Hungary S.Korea Sweden Switzerland Armenia Finland Germany Spain Britain USA Russia Used Nuclear Fuel and Radio Waste Product Level of radioactivity of RWP (depending on time),% 100 80 60 40 20 0 10 days 12 4,5 2,8 1,96 1,4 0,64 100 The issue of handling UNF  The problem of RWP (its accumulation)  Russia is going to be a “tip” of world NWP?  3 10 40 years years years UNF and RWP  Reuters,ITAR-TASS, OECD/IEA Volumes of UNF of states - members of Organization of economic cooperatition and development (tons) 40645 62685 The problem of UNF accumulation must be solved on international level USA 8217 France 22230 13214 7029 Japan 5248 Canada 37738 4729 England S.Korea 13568 8425 4150 2980 6500 14100 Sweden 2933 Germany 2250 Spain Belgium Finland 4890 1030 845 3000 1530 by 2001 whole capacity An understanding of NW threat  The process of Nuclear proliferation must be controlled by international organizations –IAEA –NEA –others Two ways of international relations development Increasing the number of nuclear weapons means providing for national security  Interaction of states (concerning the issue of reducing NW) means providing for international security 

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