TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities SN - 978-0-309-09597-6 DO - 10.17226/11265 PY - 2005 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11265/monitoring-nuclear-weapons-and-nuclear-explosive-materials-an-assessment-of PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Conflict and Security Issues AB - 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. ER -