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Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control Verification

Innovative Systems Concepts

  • Takes stock and evaluates how existing technologies and methodologies can work together under the continuing threats posed by nuclear weapons
  • Brings together the views of a diverse group of international experts from national laboratories, universities and non-governmental organizations
  • Strives to link the nonproliferation and arms control communities with a broader international security world in a way that will forster cross-fertilization of ideas
  • Can be used in undergraduate and graduate studies on non-proliferation, arms control, and international security

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Systems Concepts: Structuring a New Verification Approach

    • Mona Dreicer, Irmgard Niemeyer, Gotthard Stein
    Pages 1-11
  3. Status of Verification Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. The Evolution of Safeguards

      • Jill N. Cooley
      Pages 27-41
  4. Factors Influencing the Development of a Systems Concept for Verification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
    2. Military Dimensions

      • Michel Richard
      Pages 83-98
    3. Strategic Export Control

      • Filippo Sevini, Willem A. Janssens
      Pages 99-111
  5. Methods and Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Formalizing Acquisition Path Analysis

      • Morton Canty, Clemens Listner
      Pages 125-139
    3. Metrics for Detecting Undeclared Materials and Activities

      • Nicholas Kyriakopoulos
      Pages 141-153
    4. Game Theoretical Models for Arms Control and Disarmament Verification

      • Rudolf Avenhaus, Thomas Krieger
      Pages 155-168
  6. Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. Futures Research as an Opportunity for Innovation in Verification Technologies

      • Joachim Schulze, Matthias Grüne, Marcus John, Ulrik Neupert, Dirk Thorleuchter
      Pages 187-204
    3. Attribute Information Barriers

      • Malte Göttsche, Gerald Kirchner
      Pages 205-216
    4. Minimally Intrusive Approaches to Nuclear Warhead Verification

      • Alexander Glaser, Yan Jie
      Pages 217-230

About this book

This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies. 

With the practical application of the systems concept to nuclear disarmament scenarios and other, non-nuclear verification fields, it investigates, where greater transparency and confidence could be achieved in pursuit of new national or international nonproliferation and arms reduction efforts.

A final discussion looks at how, in the absence of formal government-to-government negotiations, experts can take practical steps to advance the technical development of these concepts.


Editors and Affiliations

  • IEK-6: Nuclear Waste Management and Reactor Safety, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

    Irmgard Niemeyer

  • Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

    Mona Dreicer

  • Consultant, Bonn, Germany

    Gotthard Stein

About the editors

Irmgard Niemeyer, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Nuclear Waste Management and Reactor Safety, Jülich, Germany

Mona Dreicer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Global Security Research, Livermore, California, USA

Gotthard Stein, Consultant, Bonn, Germany

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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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