@BOOK{NAP11265, author = "National Research Council", title = "Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities", isbn = "978-0-309-09597-6", doi = "10.17226/11265", abstract = "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\u2014strategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployed\u2014plus 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.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11265/monitoring-nuclear-weapons-and-nuclear-explosive-materials-an-assessment-of", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }