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    Nuclear energy rethink? The rise and demise of South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor

    "Given the central importance of energy policy in South Africa, it is more important than ever that projects like the PBMR are evaluated for their necessity, viability, affordability, sustainability, and contribution to the country’s development pa…

    David Fig

    • Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR)
    • Nuclear history
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Arms control--International cooperation
    • Nuclear energy
    40 pages

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    The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Africa’s Developmental and Security Imperatives

    "Issue 5 focuses on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), its adherence in Africa and the potential benefits that Africa can derive from the work of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (…

    Dominique Dye

    Noël Stott

    • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
    • Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
    • Weapons of mass destruction
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Chemical arms control
    5 pages

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    Africa’s Development and the Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Update 3

    "This update to ‘Africa’s Policy Imperatives’ Issue 1, 2 and 3 published in May 2009, June 2010 and November 2010 respectively,provides a brief overview of international and African efforts to strengthen disarmament and non-proliferation through a n…

    Noël Stott

    Amelia Broodryk

    Dominique Dye

    • Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
    • Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
    • Disarmament
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Weapons of mass destruction
    10 pages

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    Preparing for 2010

    "This Guide provides a broad overview of the NPT and the past and present review cycles. It aims to assist African States to fully participate in the debates both during, and in the period leading up to, the 2010 NPT Review Conference and to thereby…

    Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

    • Nuclear energy
    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Disarmament
    • Chemical arms control
    36 pages

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    The Treaty of Pelindaba Towards the Full Implementation of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

    "This guide briefly outlines the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba) and describes the procedures that most African States need to follow in order to ratify or accede to this treaty and to implement its provisions. The Gu…

    Noël Stott

    • Treaty of Pelindaba
    • African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE)
    • Cairo Declaration
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Weapons of mass destruction
    • Disarmament
    39 pages

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    G-8 Preview: Bush and Allies to Discuss Repairing Their Rift and Rebuilding Iraq

    The annual economic summit of eight industrialized nations, which begins June 1 in Evian, France, will provide an opportunity for President Bush to repair relations with major European countries that opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, particularly F…

    Ron Nessen

    Lael Brainard

    Ivo H. Daalder

    Fiona Hill

    Martin S. Indyk

    • Kyoto protocol
    • United Nations
    • Economic policy
    • Finance
    • Developing countries
    • International trade
    • International economic relations
    • Intergovernmental fiscal relations
    • Fiscal policy
    • Oil
    • HIV infections
    • AIDS (Disease)
    • HIV infections
    • AIDS (Disease)
    • Poverty
    • Ballistic missiles
    • Terrorism
    • Armed forces
    • Truth commissions
    • United Nations. Security Council
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Democratization
    26 pages

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    International problems of nuclear proliferation and the South African position

    The issue of the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, whether it can be abolished or controlled is part of a long historical debate about the role of arms races in causing wars. History shows that disarmament was not successfully imple…

    J. E. Spence

    • Non-Proliferation Treaty
    • Disarmament
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Arms control
    • International relations
    13 pages

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    The control of nuclear weapons

    This report focuses on nuclear weapons and the disarmament efforts that took place after World War II. America and the Soviet Union and later Britain combined forces to create a Treaty to be signed by all countries. However numerous countries refu…

    George H. Quester

    • Disarmament process
    • Non-proliferation
    • Nuclear technology
    • Arms control
    • Nuclear weapons
    11 pages

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    SAIIA Newsletter No. 4, 1971

    This newsletter contains three articles and various brief reports.George Quester’s article summarises characteristics of the disarmament process the focus which have until recently been on the United States and the Soviet Union, with much disagreeme…

    South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

    • Disarmament
    • Coups
    • African Development bank
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Political Development
    • International relations
    31 pages

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    A crisis of identity? South Africa and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

    "South Africa played a pivotal role in recent negotiations for the extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). On the one hand, South Africa has been commended for using its special attributes to build consensus amongst a divergent grou…

    Morabo Morojele

    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    • Foreign policy
    • Nuclear weapons
    4 pages

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    Africa’s Engagement with the International Nuclear Security Framework

    "In March 2014, the third Nuclear Security Summit will take place in The Hague, the Netherlands. The summit represents an opportunity for invited states to assess progress made since 2010, focusing specifically on the objectives and actions outli…

    Amelia Broodryk

    Shaun Edge

    • International Nuclear Security
    • Nuclear Security
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Weapons of mass destruction
    • Nuclear arms control
    • Arms control--International cooperation
    4 pages

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    Implementing the African Nuclear-Weapon- Free Zone Treaty: Another Major Step Forward

    "This edition (Issue 7) focuses on the Treaty of Pelindaba and recent developments in its implementation including the establishment of its compliance body, the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE) and progress made by both the US and the …

    Noël Stott

    • Treaty of Pelindaba
    • African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE)
    • African Nuclear-Weapon Free Zone
    • Nuclear arms control
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Arms control--International cooperation
    7 pages

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    Progress Towards Securing Africa's Nuclear Resources

    "Section I of this assessment addresses the central research question of how the challenge of securing nuclear materials on the African continent is currently being addressed by investigating existing and future activities undertaken by African gove…

    Amelia Broodryk

    Noël Stott

    • Nuclear Materials
    • Nuclear Security
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Weapons of mass destruction
    • Terrorism
    • Arms control--International cooperation
    68 pages

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    Towards Effective Implementation of UN-imposed Arms Embargoes in Africa

    An analysis is provided in this policy brief, regarding the implementation of arms embargoes in Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone and Somalia. These countries were selected for analysis based on their particular…

    Nelson Alusala

    • Arms Embargoes
    • Proliferation of Weaponry
    • Violence
    • Arms control
    • Weapons of mass destruction
    • Nuclear weapons
    12 pages

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    Positioning South Africa in 21st Century Global Nuclear Security Debates

    South Africa’s third term on the UN Security Council (UNSC), which began in January 2019, takes place within a more constrained domestic milieu than its previous terms. Concerns about local economic growth prospects, the state’s dwindling capacity t…

    Aditi Lalbahadur

    • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    • Nuclear security
    • Foreign policy
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Peace
    14 pages

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    Can South Africa de-escalate the Korean Peninsula crisis?

    In the wake of North Korea firing a missile into Japanese airspace on 29 August – which was also the United Nations' commemorative International Day Against Nuclear Tests – an emergency UN Security Council meeting has been called over the escalation…

    South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

    • Nuclear nonproliferation
    • Nuclear weapons
    4min

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