%0 Book %A National Research Council %T Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities %@ 978-0-309-09597-6 %D 2005 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11265/monitoring-nuclear-weapons-and-nuclear-explosive-materials-an-assessment-of %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11265/monitoring-nuclear-weapons-and-nuclear-explosive-materials-an-assessment-of %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Conflict and Security Issues %P 264 %R doi:10.17226/11265 %X 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.