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 weaponsstrategic and nonstrategic, deployed and nondeployedplus 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 Contents 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