Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants

Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants

  • Editor: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309126830
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309126847
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309177481
  • Lugar de publicación:  Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2005
  • Mes: Abril
  • Páginas: 267
  • DDC: 600
  • Idioma: Ingles
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.
  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • 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
  • Appendix A Physics and Technology of Nuclear-Explosive Materials
  • Appendix B Acronyms
  • Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

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