Chapter One. Assessing The Impact Of The Nuclear Age On The Oceans And Its Legal Regime

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements Preface to the Expanded Edition List of Treaties and Other Official Acts List of Cases PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Chapter One Assessing the Impact of the Nuclear Age on the Oceans and Its Legal Regime by David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber PART TWO: RADIOACTIVE WASTES IN THE OCEANS: MANAGING THE PAST AND CONSIDERING THE FUTURE Chapter Two Deep Sea Impacts by Hjalmar Thiel Chapter Three Risk and Vulnerability at Contaminated Sites in the Pacific and Australian Proving Grounds from a 'Long-Term Stewardship' Perspective: What Have We Learned? by Thomas M. Leschine Chapter Four Legacies and Perils from the Perspective of the Republic of the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal by Philip A. Okney Chapter Five The Legacy of French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific by Laurence Cordonnery Chapter Six Hazardous Substances and the Baltic Sea by Malgosia Fitzmaurice Chapter Seven New Opportunities and Deep Ocean Technologies for Assessing the Feasibility of Sub-Seabed High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal: The Application of 21st Century Oceanography to Solving Outstanding Problems by Daniel J. Fornari Chapter Eight Sub-Seabed Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste: The Policy Context Then and Now by Edward L. Miles PART THREE: THE OCEAN TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE FUEL AND WASTE Chapter Nine Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste by Jon M. Van Dyke+ Chapter Ten Transportation of Radioactive Materials through the Caribbean Sea: The Development of a Nuclear-Free Zone by Luis E. Rodriguez-Rivera Chapter Eleven Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste: A Japanese Perspective by Masahiro Miyoshi Chapter Twelve Navigation of Ships with Nuclear Cargoes:Dialogue between Flag and Coastal States as a Method for Managing the Dispute by Tullio Treves PART FOUR: NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WEAPON GRADE MATERIAL ON THE OCEANS Chapter Thirteen Maritime Terrorism and the International Law of Boarding of Vessels at Sea: Assessing the New Developments by Ted L. McDorman Chapter Fourteen The Proliferation Security Initiative and Asia by Mark J. Valencia Chapter Fifteen The Proliferation Security Initiative: Amending the Convention on the Law of the Sea by Stealth? by Donald R. Rothwell Chapter Sixteen Cargos of Doom: National Strategies of the U.S. to Combat the Illicit Transport of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sea by Craig H. Allen Chapter Seventeen Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Maritime Transit of Nuclear Weapons by Scott Parrish Chapter Eighteen Oceans in a Nuclear Age: Security Concerns of the United States by Michael J. Matheson PART FIVE: NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE IN THE ARCTIC Chapter Nineteen Canada, The United States and the Northwest Passage by Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel Chapter Twenty The Russian Approach to the Protection of the Arctic Seas from Radioactive Wastes by Alexander S. Skaridov Chapter Twenty-One Arctic Nuclear Pollution by Lakshman D. Guruswamy Chapter Twenty-Two Nuclear Transport along the Northern Route and Nuclear Waste Dumping in the Barents and Kara Seas by R. Douglas Brubaker PART SIX: CONCLUDING DISCUSSION Chapter Twenty-Three Reflections on the Theme of the Oceans in the Nuclear Age by Bernard H. Oxman Chapter Twenty-Four The Oceans in the Nuclear Age: Challenges, Questions and Possibilities by David D. Caron Chapter Twenty-Five Nuclear Risks in Coastal Areas: Legal and Regulatory Responses by Todd Emerson Hutchins Abbreviations Selected Bibliography A Note on Radioactive Materials and their Measurements List of Contributors Index