The oceans in the nuclear age : legacies and risks / edited by David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber.

Preliminary Material / D.D. Caron and H.N. Scheiber -- Chapter One. Assessing The Impact Of The Nuclear Age On The Oceans And Its Legal Regime / David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber -- Chapter Two. Deep Sea Impacts / 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? / Thomas M. Leschine -- Chapter Four. Legacies And Perils From The Perspective Of The Republic Of The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal / Philip A. Okney -- Chapter Five. The Legacy Of French Nuclear Testing In The Pacific / Laurence Cordonnery -- Chapter Six. Hazardous Substances And The Baltic Sea / 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 / Daniel J. Fornari -- Chapter Eight. Sub-Seabed Disposal Of High Level Radioactive Waste: The Policy Context Then And Now / Edward L. Miles -- Chapter Nine. Ocean Transport Of Radioactive Fuel And Waste / Jon M. Van Dyke -- Chapter Ten. Transportation Of Radioactive Materials Through The Caribbean Sea: The Development Of A Nuclear-Free Zone / Luis E. Rodríguez-Rivera -- Chapter Eleven. Ocean Transport Of Radioactive Fuel And Waste: A Japanese Perspective / Masahiro Miyoshi -- Chapter Twelve. Navigation Of Ships With Nuclear Cargoes: Dialogue Between Flag And Coastal States As A Method For Managing The Dispute / Tulio Treves -- Chapter Thirteen. Maritime Terrorism And The International Law Of Boarding Of Vessels At Sea: Assessing The New Developments / Ted L. McDorman -- Chapter Fourteen. The Proliferation Security Initiative And Asia / Mark J. Valencia -- Chapter Fifteen. The Proliferation Security Initiative: Amending The Convention On The Law Of The Sea By Stealth? / 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 / Craig H. Allen -- Chapter Seventeen. Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones And Maritime Transit Of Nuclear Weapons / Scott Parrish -- Chapter Eighteen. Oceans In A Nuclear Age: Security Concerns Of The United States / Michael J. Matheson -- Appendix A. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) / D.D. Caron and H.N. Scheiber -- Appendix B. Interdiction Principles For The Proliferation Security Initiative / D.D. Caron and H.N. Scheiber -- Appendix C. The Combating Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction Act / D.D. Caron and H.N. Scheiber -- Chapter Nineteen. Canada, The United States And The Northwest Passage / Elizabeth B. Elliot-Meisel -- Chapter Twenty. The Russian Approach To The Protection Of The Arctic Seas From Radioactive Wastes / Alexander S. Skaridov -- Chapter Twenty-One. Arctic Nuclear Pollution / Lakshman D. Guruswamy -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Nuclear Transport Along The Northern Route And Nuclear Waste Dumping In The Barents And Kara Seas / R. Douglas Brubaker -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Reflections On The Theme Of The Oceans In The Nuclear Age / Bernard H. Oxman.

The advent of the nuclear age in 1945 fundamentally altered the course of human events. The oceans are not the focus of the nuclear age, but the affairs of the oceans are deeply woven into the history of that age. Knowledge of what the nuclear age has meant for the oceans, however, is highly fragmented and there exists a surprising gap in research on the impact of the nuclear age on the oceans and on ocean law and policy. Ranging from dumped wastes to transportation to security, this study frames the complex multidimensional set of relationships between the oceans and the nuclear age and illuminates patterns of impact and response in ocean law.