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Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities
Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and NuclearExplosive Materials An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities Author:Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Research Council 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 non-deployed, plus the nuclear-explosive components and materials tha... more »t 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.« less