Fissile Materials and Nuclear Disarmament

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Fissile Materials and Nuclear Disarmament

James Acton and co-authors present an overview of the role of fissile material control in nuclear disarmament. They review past efforts to securing disarmament and discuss the major challenges facing the elimination of nuclear weapons today.

By James M. Acton

Published on Nov 5, 2009

Source: IPFM Report

In Chapter 2 of the International Panel on Fissile Materials' (IPFM) Global Fissile Material Report 2009, James Acton and co-authors present an overview of the role of fissile material control in nuclear disarmament. They start by briefly reviewing efforts, since 1945, to secure nuclear disarmament and discuss the renewal of the nuclear abolition debate today. They then outline some of the major choices that will have to be made in eliminating nuclear weapons and explore their implications for the management of fissile material in a disarming world.

About the Author

James M. Acton

Jessica T. Mathews Chair, Co-director, Nuclear Policy Program

Acton holds the Jessica T. Mathews Chair and is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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