Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials

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.Table of ContentsFront MatterExecutive Summary1 Introduction2 Nuclear Weapons3 Nuclear-Explosive Materials4 Clandestine Stocks and Production of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear- Explosive Materials5 General ConclusionsAppendix A Physics and Technology of Nuclear-Explosive MaterialsAppendix B AcronymsAppendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members