Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities - Softcover

National Research Council; Policy And Global Affairs; Committee On International Security And Arms Control

9780309095976: Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309095972 ISBN 13: 9780309095976

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2005

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter
Executive Summary
1 Introduction
2 Nuclear Weapons
3 Nuclear-Explosive Materials
4 Clandestine Stocks and Production of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear- Explosive Materials
5 General Conclusions
Appendix A Physics and Technology of Nuclear-Explosive Materials
Appendix B Acronyms
Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

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