Laying the Foundations; Verifying the transition to low levels of nuclear weapons: Preliminary Report

40 pages. Footnotes. Tables. Glossary. Institutional stamp and date in ink on front cover. Format is approximately 8 inches by 11.75 inches. This preliminary report was scheduled to be formally published in VERTIC's "Verification Matters" series. Transmittal letter signed by the author (with a date in ink at top corner) and a Briefing Paper (4 pages) by Richard Guthrie on "The Transition to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: A Model for the Verification Framework" laid in. VERTIC is an independent, not-for-profit non-governmental organization. Our mission is to support the development, implementation and effectiveness of international agreements and related regional and national initiatives, with particular attention to issues of monitoring, review, legislation and verification. VERTIC publishes its research on verification regimes through a series of openly available publications. Dr. Patricia M. Lewis is the Research Director, International Security at Chatham House. Her former posts include Deputy Director and Scientist-in-Residence at the Center for Non-proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies; Director of UNIDIR; and Director of VERTIC in London. Dr. Lewis served on the 2004-6 WMD Commission chaired by Dr. Hans Blix; the 2010-2011 Advisory Panel on Future Priorities of the OPCW chaired by Ambassador Rolf Ekeus; and was an adviser to the 2008-10 International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) chaired by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi. She holds a BSc in physics from Manchester University and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Birmingham University. Dr. Lewis is the recipient of the American Physical Society's 2009 Joseph A Burton Forum Award recognizing 'outstanding contributions to the public understanding or resolution of issues involving the interface of physics and society'. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…