This fifth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on various legal aspects regarding nuclear security and nuclear deterrence.

Chaper 1. Legal Challenges for Nuclear Security and Deterrence.- Part I. Global Issues and Concerns.- Chapter 2. Questioning International Nuclear Weapons Law as a Field of Resistance.- Chapter 3. The NPT-CTBT Connection.- Chapter 4. Planning for Disaster - Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Disaster.- Chapter 5. The Legal Regime of the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Space Missions.- Chapter 6. The 2016 ILC Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters and their Relevance for Victims of Nuclear Accidents and Use of Nuclear Weapons.- Chapter 7. Sanctions in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law.- Part II. Regional Matters.- Chapter 8. The Unclassical Match Between Brazil and Argentina: Past and Present of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Chapter 9. Lessons from South Africa's Voluntary Denuclearisation Process and the African Continent's Position on Nuclear Weapons.- Chapter 10. Foreign Assistance in Establishing and Operating Nuclear PowerPlants: The South African Experience.- Chapter 11. Small Modular Reactors in Canada: Eroding Public Oversight and Canada's Transition to Sustainable Development.- Part III. New Approaches towards Nuclear Disarmament.- Chapter 12. Understanding Nuclear Deterrence within the International Constitutional Architecture.- Chapter 13. Running Out of (Legal) Excuses: Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of the Prohibition Treaty.- Chapter 14. The Link between Nuclear Disarmament and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 15. Possible Means to Overcome Tendencies of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty to Erode the NPT.- Chapter 16. Precarious Peace: Nuclear Deterrence and Defence Doctrines of Nuclear-Weapon States in the Post-Cold War Era.- Chapter 17. Legal Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Doctrines.- Index.