Transparency in Nuclear Warheads and Materials - The Political and Technical Dimensions

General requirements for establishing a verification regime in the context of moving towards a nuclear weapon-free world have been the subject of numerous studies during the past decade. The studies presented in this book add significantly to the general discussion by addressing the technical
means and procedures for establishing transparency in nuclear warheads and materials in the nuclear weapons states. They examine recent initiatives - not only the US-Russian arms control and security dialogue, but also developments in the other nuclear weapon states. The capacities of the US and
Russian nuclear weapon complexes to undertake irreversible warhead elimination are considered, as are the effects of increased transparency on international security. The book analyses proposed arrangements for establishing stockpile declarations, for verifying warhead dismantlement and the storage
and disposition of fissile materials, and for monitoring the closure or conversion of nuclear facilities. In this light it provides a comprehensive, in-depth appraisal of a possible role for the IAEA. The contributors represent an exceptionally wide range of experience and knowledge on the
increasingly important issue of transparency.

Summary

General requirements for establishing a verification regime in the context of moving towards a nuclear weapon-free world have been the subject of numerous studies. This book presents the studies that address the technical means and procedures for establishing transparency in nuclear warheads and materials in the nuclear weapons states.

Additional text

Zarimpas's genuine innovation and contribution is that he splits evenly the selections for his volume between politics and technology, properly reflecting their inextricable roles in putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle.

Product details

• Authors: Stockholm International Peace Research I, Nicholas Zarimpas
• Assisted by: Nicholas Zarimpas (Editor), Nicholas (SIPRI Project Leader) Zarimpas (Editor), Zarimpas Nicholas (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2003
• EAN: 9780199252428
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925242-8
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Illustrations: numerous figures
• Series: SIPRI Research Reports; SIPRI Monographs; SIPRI Research Reports; SIPRI Monographs; Sipri Monograph
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, International Relations, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Nuclear weapons, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet