Japan's Nuclear Future; The Plutonium Debate And East Asian Security
Washington DC: A Carnegie Endowment Book, 1996. Wraps. vi, 120, [2] pages. Notes. Figures. Tabular Information. Appendix A. Appendix B. Selig Seidenman Harrison (March 19, 1927 – December 30, 2016) was a scholar and journalist, who specialized in South Asia and East Asia. He was the Director of the Asia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was also a member of the Afghanistan Study Group. He wrote five books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia. His last book, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement (Princeton University Press), won the 2002 award of the Association of American Publishers for the best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science. His outspoken, constructive criticisms of administration policies often appeared on op-ed pages of many major newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and The Financial Times. Japan's policy of basing its nuclear power program on reprocessed plutonium has aroused widespread suspicion that Japan is secretly planning to develop nuclear weapons. This book presents the views of a leading Japanese proponent of the reprocessing policy, Atsuyuki Suzuki, professor of nuclear engineering at Tokyo University; a leading critic, Jinzaburo Takagi, director of the Citizens Nuclear Information Center; and Taewoo Kim, a South Korean specialist who warns that the Japanese nuclear program could lead Seoul to pursue a reprocessing capability of its own. The introduction by Selig S. Harrison analyzes the history of the domestic debate in Japan over the acquisition of nuclear weapons and assesses the possibility of a Japanese nuclear weapons program. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Plutonium, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, NPT, Nonproliferation Treaty, Missile, Security Policy, Nuclear Fuel, Reprocessing, Disarmament, Health Risks, Environmental Risks, Defense Policy, Nuclear Policy, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Jinzaburo Takagi, Taewoo Ki
ISBN: 0870030655
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