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.


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