Cultivating Confidence: Verification, Monitoring, and Enforcement for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

by Corey Hinderstein (Editor)

Overview

Ten expert contributors present a blueprint for actions future government leaders will need to guide policy making to reduce nuclear dangers. The authors identify the key technical, political, and diplomatic challenges associated with verifying, monitoring, and enforcing a world free of nuclear weapons and provide potential solutions to those challenges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817912055
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	09/01/2010
Series:	HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION Series
Edition description:	First Edition, 1st Edition
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
 

Introduction
Corey Hinderstein
 

1. Political Dimensions of Determining “Effective” Verification
Edward Ifft
 

2. Enforcement of the Rules in a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Harald Müller

3. Verifying the Nonproduction and Elimination of Fissile Material for Weapons
Annette Schaper

4. Going to Zero: Verifying Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement
James Fuller

5. Establishing Non-Nuclear Weapon States’ Confidence in Verification
Steinar Høibråten and Halvor Kippe

6. Verifying the Nonproduction of New Nuclear Weapons
Everet H. Beckner

7. Verifying Reductions and Elimination of Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Steven P. Andreasen

8. The Role of the IAEA in a World Reducing Stocks of Nuclear Weapons
Thomas E. Shea

9. Role and Responsibility of the Civil Sector in Managing Trade in Specialized Materials
Ralf Wirtz

Appendix A. Wall Street Journal Op-Eds
“A World Free of Nuclear Weapons” (January 4, 2007)
“Toward a Nuclear-Free World” (January 15, 2008)

Appendix B. Workshop Attendees
About the Contributors
Index