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.
- FrontMatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Nuclear Weapons
- 3 Nuclear-Explosive Materials
- 4 Clandestine Stocks and Production of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear- Explosive Materials
- 5 General Conclusions
- Appendixes
- Appendix A Physics and Technology of Nuclear-Explosive Materials
- Appendix B Acronyms
- Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
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