GENERAL INFORMATION
Detailed 2015 paper: The myth of the peaceful atom – debunking the misinformation peddled by the nuclear industry and its supporters
Nuclear power and weapons – explaining the connections
Nuclear power and weapons proliferation – detailed 2010 briefing paper (PDF).
Steven E. Miller & Scott D. Sagan, Nuclear power without nuclear proliferation?, Daedalus, 2009.
Victor Gilinsky, A call to resist the nuclear revival, 27 January 2009, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
Military interests are pushing new nuclear power – and the UK government has finally admitted it
NUCLEAR INSIDERS AND LOBBYISTS ACKNOWLEDGE POWER / WEAPONS CONNECTION
2017 – nuclear industry body and lobbyists acknowledge power/weapons connections
2018 – Nuclear lobbyist Michael Shellenberger learns to love the bomb
COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
Case Studies: Civil Nuclear Programs and Weapons Proliferation. The case studies cover these 21 countries: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia.
UK – use of power reactors to produce plutonum for weapons (Dr David Lowry)
Nuclear Threat Initiative: www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/
Institute for Science and International Security, “Nuclear Weapons Programs Worldwide: An Historical Overview”
Nuclear Weapon Archive, “Nuclear Weapon Nations and Arsenals”, nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq7.html
GlobalSecurity.org www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/index.html
Otfried Nassauer, December 2005, “Nuclear Energy and Proliferation”, Nuclear Issues Paper No. 4 or direct download.
AUSTRALIA
The push for nuclear weapons in Australia 1950s-1970s
Lucas Heights (Australia) and nuclear weapons
‘GENERATION 4’ REACTORS AND WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
Nuclear weapons and ‘Generation 4’ reactors
Thorium and WMD proliferation risks
Response to Barry Brook / Corey Bradshaw’s 2014 ‘open letter to environmentalists’
RESEARCH REACTORS
Research reactors and weapons proliferation (online or PDF)
PLUTONIUM GRADES
Plutonium grades and nuclear weapons – can ‘reactor grade’ plutonium be used in weapons?
OTHER PAPERS, ARTICLES ETC.
Articles by Victor Gilinsky – physicist and former US Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner
Quotable quotes about safeguards and proliferation
PR spin and the power/weapons symbiosis
Military and terrorist attacks on nuclear plants
‘Pro-nuclear environmentalists’ in denial about power/weapons connections’, Nuclear Monitor #858, March 2018.
MORE INFORMATION
The links page has a section on power/weapons connections. (most or all of the papers listed there are also listed on this webpage). The links page also has a safeguards section.