Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials

Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials

An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities

  • Editor: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309095976
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309548892
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309181211
  • Lloc de publicació:  United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2005
  • Mes: Abril
  • Pàgines: 267
  • DDC: 600
  • Idioma: Anglés
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