Monitoring nuclear weapons and nuclear-explosive materials / Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear arms control.

Nuclear fuel elements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Subtitle on cover: Assessment of methods and capabilities

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 (TM)s assessment of the technical and organizational possibilities suggests a more optimistic conclusion than most of those concerned with these issues might have expected.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612083266

9780309181211

0309181216

9781282083264

1282083260

9780309548892

0309548896

OCLC:

923274656