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.
National Research Council. 2005. Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11265.
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Front Matter | i-xvi | |
Executive Summary | 1-14 | |
1 Introduction | 15-44 | |
2 Nuclear Weapons | 45-108 | |
3 Nuclear-Explosive Materials | 109-182 | |
4 Clandestine Stocks and Production of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear- Explosive Materials | 183-216 | |
5 General Conclusions | 217-220 | |
Appendix A Physics and Technology of Nuclear-Explosive Materials | 221-244 | |
Appendix B Acronyms | 245-246 | |
Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members | 247-250 |
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