Verification Revisited: The Nuclear Case

Published in 2002, Verification Revisited: The Nuclear Case takes a pragmatic look at current nuclear nonproliferation verification efforts. It addresses the serious problems of states that do not fully comply with international non-proliferation standards, provides a critique of nuclear non-proliferation verification systems, and recommends improvements to ensure that states are not able to develop nuclear weapons in secret.

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Ephraim Asculai, Verification Revisited: The Nuclear Case, (Washington, DC: Institute for Science and International Security Press,2002). ISBN 0-9669467-7-4, LCCN 2002-106497, Copyright 2002, Institute for Science and International Security.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Prologue

Introduction

Part A: Verification and Nuclear Nonproliferation

Chapter 1: Verification Concepts and Methodologies

Chapter 2: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Verification and Traditional Safeguards

Chapter 3: NPT Verification and "Program 93+2"

Chapter 4: Utility of Wide-Area Environmental Sampling

Chapter 5: Verification of the CTBT

Chapter 6: IAEA's Task in Iraq

Chapter 7: Regional Arrangements

Part B: Lessons and Problems in Verification

Chapter 8: Lessons of Experience

Chapter 9: Shortcomings of an International Verification Regime

Part C: Improving the Existing System

Chapter 10: Defining a Verification Regime

Chapter 11: Differential Approach to Verification

Chapter 12: Necessary Changes to Existing Approaches

Appendices

Appendix 1: Efficacy of Effluent Detection by Wide-Area Environmental Sampling

Appendix 2: UN Stance on Verification: Theory and Practice

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