Plutonium and Security: The Military Aspects of the Plutonium Economy

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.