Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials

An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities

von National Research Council, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, Policy And Global Affairs

264 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: To what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the verification of all nuclear weapons--strategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployed--plus the nuclear-explosive components and materials that are their essential ingredients? The committee's assessment of the technical and organizational possibilities suggests a more optimistic conclusion than most of those concerned with these issues might have expected.