UID:
almafu_9961443599102883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-009-30705-3
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1-009-30706-1
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1-009-30703-7
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9781009307062
Content:
South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weapons capability, but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons and abandon the programme. Disarming Apartheid reconstructs the South African decision-making and diplomatic negotiations over the country's nuclear weapons programme and its international status, drawing on new and extensive archival material and interviews. This deeply researched study brings to light a unique disarmament experience. It traces the country's previously neglected path towards accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Rather than relying primarily on US government archives, the book joins the burgeoning field of national nuclear histories based on unprecedented access to policymakers and documents in the country studied. Robin E. Möser, in addition to providing access to important new documents, offers original interpretations that enrich the study of nuclear politics for historians and political scientists.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Mar 2024).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- South African Characteristics: The Apartheid Legacy -- South Africa and the NPT -- About the Book -- Archival Research -- Interviews -- Outline of the Book -- 1 The Development of Pretoria's Nuclear Industry and Relations with the IAEA, 1950-1977 -- 1.1 Into the Cold War: Uranium Mining and Atoms for Peace -- 1.2 The NPT's Article IV and South Africa's Position on the Treaty -- 1.3 From 'Atoms for Peace' Beneficiary to a Global Nuclear Actor -- 1.4 Towards the Late 1970s: South Africa Finds Itself Alone - But Well-Equipped! -- 2 Towards Nuclear Weapons - Away from Safeguards: The NPT Position, 1977-1981 -- 2.1 Into the 1970s: The Growth of the South African Defence Sector -- 2.2 The Carter Administration and the Koeberg Nuclear Fuel Issue -- 2.3 The Carter Administration Pushes for South African Accession to the NPT -- 2.4 Pretoria's Reasons for Continued Non-accession to the NPT -- 3 Nuclear Diplomacy: NPT Defiance Vs Non-proliferation Efforts, 1981-1988 -- 3.1 Reagan's First Term: Reviving US-South African Nuclear Relations -- 3.2 Reagan's Second Term: Diminishing Leverage over Pretoria -- 3.3 US Non-proliferation Efforts and Attempts of Rapprochement with Pretoria -- 3.4 Pretoria's NPT Strategy: Prospects of Change -- 4 Towards the End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons and NPT Negotiations, 1988-1989 -- 4.1 The End of the Cold War and South Africa's NPT Position -- 4.2 Into 1989 - Domestic Political Changes -- 4.3 Indefinite Stalling or Meaningful Progress: Pretoria's NPT Approach under de Klerk -- 5 South African Movement towards NPT Signature, 1990-1991 -- 5.1 The Interplay between the Domestic and International Dimensions.
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5.2 US Non-proliferation Policies and de Klerk's Visit to Washington -- 5.3 Continued FLS Lobbying and Movement in the South African Position -- 5.4 Signature to the NPT and South Africa's Return to the IAEA -- 6 Post-NPT Accession: Champion of Non-proliferation Norms - Or Recalcitrant Proliferation Hotspot? -- 6.1 Signing the Safeguards Agreement -- 6.2 The IAEA Verification Mission in South Africa -- 6.3 Scaling Down the Nuclear Industry and the AEC-ESKOM Relationship -- 6.4 Becoming a Global Disarmament Champion -- 6.5 American Attempts to Obtain South African HEU Stocks -- Conclusion -- Towards an Alternative View: Elucidating the NPT Trajectory -- Ramifications of South Africa's Nuclear Reversal -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-009-30704-5
Language:
English
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