Plutonium and Security: The Military Aspects of the Plutonium Economy

by Frank Barnaby (Editor)

Discusses such aspects as the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove the plutonium from them, the relationship between the capability to produce plutonium and the proliferation of nuclear weapons to countries that do not already have them, US policies for the civil use of plutonium and for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, European and Japanese plans in the 1990s for plutonium, current nuclear programs in Third World countries, and a global program for controlling fissile material. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

296 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Frank Charles Barnaby is Nuclear Issues Consultant to the Oxford Research Group, a freelance defence analyst, and a prolific author on military technology, based in the UK.

Barnaby trained as a nuclear physicist and worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, between 1951 and 1957. He was on the senior scientific staff of the Medical Research Council (UK) when a university lecturer at University College London (1957–67). Barnaby was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) from 1971–81. He was a Professor at the VU University Amsterdam 1981–85, and awarded the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the University of Minnesota in 1985.