Nuclear Weapons and the Environment An Ecological Case for Non-proliferation

About this book

In Nuclear Weapons and the Environment, John Perry highlights the environmental damage caused by nuclear device testing. The failure of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and the continued proliferation of nuclear weapons is a grave risk to not only human life but to the environment. Pointing to the unstable political situation between a variety of state and non-state actors, the remediation of nuclear test sites, and the risks involved in the production of nuclear weapons, Perry makes a clear case for the dire importance of non-proliferation.

Contents

Chapter One: Introduction to Book on Non-Proliferation
Chapter Two: Historical Background
Chapter Three: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Chapter Four: The Risk of a Regional Nuclear War between India and Pakistan
Chapter Five: The Environmental and Human Cost of Producing Nuclear Weapons
Chapter Six: Chernobyl: The World’s Worst Nuclear Accident
Chapter Seven: The Greatest Industrial Accident in History: Fukushima Daiichi
Chapter Eight: The Greatest Deproliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Postwar Period
Chapter Nine: Nuclear Proliferation through Theft, Terrorism or Neglect
Chapter Ten: Nuclear Weapons Testing: Inflicting the Conditions of Nuclear War on Fragile Environments
Chapter Eleven: Pakistan: The Biggest and Most Important Exporter of Nuclear Technology in the History of the Nuclear Age
Chapter Twelve: The Ultimate Weapon as the Ultimate Guarantee of Regime Survival: North Korea and the Bomb

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Biography

John Perry is a senior scholar at St. Paul's College at the University of Manitoba.