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Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-proliferation and disarmament. This book offers a bird's eye view on all the three.
List of contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction
Nuclear Energy
1. Current Nuclear Energy Reality: Drivers and Challenges
Manpreet Sethi
2. India's Nuclear Energy Scenario
Zoya Akhter
3. Emergence of Small Modular Reactors: Challenges and Opportunities
Manpreet Sethi and Zoya Akhter
4. Military Applications of Nuclear Power Plants
Anil Chopra
Nuclear Non-proliferation
5. Nuclear Doctrines of Great Powers and Vertical Nuclear Proliferation Trends
Abhishek Saxena
6. The State of the NPT: Challenges Ahead
Kanica Rakhra
7. The Iran Nuclear Imbroglio: End in Sight?
Sheel Kant Sharma
8. Nuclear Proliferation in East Asia: Will AUKUS Cause a New Arms Race?
Jagannath Panda
9. Contemporary Missile Developments in United States and Russia post-INF Treaty
Silky Kaur
10. Nuclear Missile Development Trends in Southern Asia: An Analysis from 2011 to 2021
Nasima Khatoon
11. The Threat of N-Terrorism: A Contemporary Assessment
Sitakanta Mishra
Nuclear Disarmament
12. Understanding Deterrence Breakdown in the Indian Context
Prakash Menon
13. Mapping Arms Control and CBMs: From Cold War Years to Present Times
R. Rajaraman
14. The Current State of Play in Nuclear Disarmament
Swaran Singh and Reshmi Kazi
15. Prospects of Nuclear Disarmament after the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Could New Opportunities Arise?
Manpreet Sethi
Index
About the author
Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), New Delhi, has been leading the project on Nuclear Security at the Centre for the last 20 years. She is an expert on the entire spectrum of nuclear issues ranging from nuclear energy, strategy, non-proliferation, disarmament, arms control and ballistic missile defence. She has authored, edited and co-authored eight books and three monographs. She also has published over 100 papers in books/academic journals of repute. Her book
Nuclear Strategy: India's March towards Crediblev Deterrence (2009) is deemed essential reading at many colleges and armed forces institutions.
Summary
Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-proliferation and disarmament. This book offers a bird’s eye view on all the three.
