There is growing interest world wide in nuclear-free zones. Originally published in 1987, this book explores the question of what constitutes a nuclear-free zone and charts the progress of the movement to establish them. The book shows how definitions of nuclear-free zones vary from those intended to exclude everything nuclear (including nuclear power installations and the dumping of nuclear waste) to those aiming to exclude nuclear weapons in a limited way. Special attention is paid to the three treaties which have established major international nuclear-free zones, (Latin America, South Pacific, Antarctica) examining their strengths and weaknesses as well as areas where the idea has been proposed (Balkans, Africa). The book concludes with a review of problems and prospects for the future.
Preface Alexandre Berenstein
1. Nuclear-Free Zones: An Idea Whose Time
Has Come David Pitt
2. Antarctica as a Nuclear-Free Zone Ramesh Thakur and
Hyam Gold
3. The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin
America Alfonso Garcia Robies
4. The Treaty of Rarotonga: The South Pacific
Nuclear-Free Zone Ramesh Thakur
5. Regional Arms Control in the South Pacific
Greg Fry
6. For a Nuclear-Free Europe Ken Coates
7. The Quest for a Balkan
Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone Peri Pamir
8. A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa?
William Epstein
9. Nuclear-Free Zones: Problems and Prospects Ken Coates.
Conclusion Gordon Thompson. About the Editors and Contributors. About the
Sponsoring Organisations. Index.
David Pitt, Gordon Thompson
