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 -- Part Two Radioactive Wastes in the Oceans: Managing the Past and Considering the Future -- Chapter Two Deep Sea Impacts -- 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? -- Chapter Four Legacies and Perils from the Perspective of the Republic of the Marshal Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal -- Chapter Five The Legacy of French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific -- Chapter Six Hazardous Substances and the Baltic Sea -- 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 -- Chapter Eight Sub-Seabed Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste :The Policy Context Then and Now -- Part Three The Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste -- Chapter Nine Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste -- Chapter Ten Transportation of Radioactive Materials through the Caribbean Sea: The Developmentof a Nuclear-Free Zone -- Chapter Eleven Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste: A Japanese Perspective -- Chapter Twelve Navigation of Ships with Nuclear Cargoes: Dialogue between Flag and Coastal States as a Method for Managing the Dispute -- 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: A Brief Assessment of the New Developments -- Chapter Fourteen The Proliferation Security Initiative and Asia.

Chapter Fifteen The Proliferation Security Initiative: Amending the Convention on the Law of the Sea by Stealth? -- Chapter Sixteen Cargoes of Doom: National Strategies of the U.S. to Combat the Illicit Transport of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sea -- Chapter Seventeen Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Maritime Transit of Nuclear Weapons -- Chapter Eighteen Oceans in a Nuclear Age: Security Concerns of the United States -- Appendix A United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) -- Appendix B Interdiction Principles for the Proliferation Security Initiative -- Appendix C The Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act -- Part Five Nuclear Activities and Radioactive Waste in the Arctic -- Chapter Nineteen Canada, The United States and the Northwest Passage -- Chapter Twenty The Russian Approach to the Protection of the Arctic Seas from Radioactive Wastes -- Chapter Twenty-One Arctic Nuclear Pollution -- Chapter Twenty-Two Nuclear Transport along the Northern Route and Nuclear Waste Dumping in the Barents and Kara Seas -- Part Six Concluding Discussion -- Chapter Twenty-Three Reflections on the Theme of the Oceans in the Nuclear Age -- Chapter Twenty-Four The Oceans in the Nuclear Age: Challenges, Questions and Possibilities -- Chapter Twenty-Five Nuclear Risks in Coastal Areas: Legal and Regulatory Responses -- Abbreviations -- Selected Bibliography -- A Note on Radioactive Materials and their Measurements -- List of Contributors -- Index.