Observations, Conclusions, Perspective

Uranium enrichment and plutonium production capabilities are treated under the NPT regime as legal activities if the country pursues them for peaceful purposes. Yet, this is considered to be the “Achilles’ heel” of the international non-proliferation regime, because the country that possesses these...

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Autor principal: Ikonomou, Pantelis F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199717/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46997-9_9
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description Uranium enrichment and plutonium production capabilities are treated under the NPT regime as legal activities if the country pursues them for peaceful purposes. Yet, this is considered to be the “Achilles’ heel” of the international non-proliferation regime, because the country that possesses these capabilities could use them to illegally and unexpectedly break-out of the regime and its obligations and pursue a military nuclear program, that means to build nuclear weapons.
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spelling pubmed-71997172020-05-06 Observations, Conclusions, Perspective Ikonomou, Pantelis F. Global Nuclear Developments Article Uranium enrichment and plutonium production capabilities are treated under the NPT regime as legal activities if the country pursues them for peaceful purposes. Yet, this is considered to be the “Achilles’ heel” of the international non-proliferation regime, because the country that possesses these capabilities could use them to illegally and unexpectedly break-out of the regime and its obligations and pursue a military nuclear program, that means to build nuclear weapons. 2020-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7199717/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46997-9_9 Text en © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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