Verification Revisited: The Nuclear Case

Overview

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.  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. Note: All files below are in Adobe Acrobat Format.

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
• About the Author