Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities

By National Research Council and Committee on International Security and

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309095972
• ISBN13: 9780309095976
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 264 Pages