Springer Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control Verification: Innovative Systems Concepts

Product Description 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. From the Back Cover 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 newnational 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. About the Author 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