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"Reluctant Restraint examines one of the most important changes in Chinese foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China's gradual move to support the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles, and their related goods and technologies. Once a critic of the global nonproliferation regime, China is now a supporter of it, although with some reservations. Medeiros analyzes how and why Chinese nonproliferation policies have evolved so...

To put tritium on ice is to modify an ice condenser in a nuclear power plant to produce tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, which is needed to turn A-bombs into H-bombs. When Energy Secretary Bill Richardson asked domestic nuclear power plants, most notably the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plant in eastern Tennessee, to do just that in 1998, Bergeron contends that the government blurred the line between domestic energy and nuclear proliferation....

"In Peddling Peril David Albright offers a harrowing narrative of the frighteningly large cracks through which nuclear weapons traffickers - such as Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan - continue to slip." "Six years after the arrest of Khan, the networks he established continue to thrive, with black markets sprouting up across the globe. The dramatic takedown of the leader of the world's largest and most perilous smuggling network was originally...