International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification by an international authority constitute a primary assurance against risks posed by the spread of sensitive technologies that can be used to produce weapons of mass destruction or risks posed by climate changes due to global human activities. This book presents in an interdisciplinary manner experts' analyses and views of existing verification systems: It gives guidelines and advice for the improvement of those systems as well as for new challenges in the field.
Author(s): Rudolf Avenhaus, Nicholas Kyriakopoulos, Michel Richard, Gotthard Stein
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2006
Language: English
Commentary: 48949
Pages: 618
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 5
Foreword......Page 7
Acknowledgement......Page 9
Introduction......Page 14
I. Conceptual Framework......Page 24
Conceptual Framework......Page 25
II. Treaties and their Requirements......Page 50
Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Treaties: An Ontology of Concepts and Characteristics......Page 51
International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Challenges in Implementation......Page 71
Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention......Page 87
Biological Weapons Convention......Page 117
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verification......Page 145
Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe......Page 163
Developing the Climate Change Regime: The Role of Verification......Page 180
III. Field Experience......Page 219
Experience and Challenges in Weapons of Mass Destruction Treaty Verification: A Comparative View......Page 220
A Concrete Experience: The Iraq Case......Page 242
Beyond Iraq: The New Challenges to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Regime......Page 265
IV. Formal Models of Verification......Page 298
Formal Models of Verification......Page 299
V. Systems and Linkages - Crosscutting......Page 324
Civil Reconnaissance Satellites: Opportunities and Challenges......Page 325
Change Detection: The Potential for Nuclear Safeguards......Page 337
Aspects of Networking: Experience from Global Monitoring for Security and Stability......Page 351
Environmental Sample Analysis......Page 368
Tracing the Origin of Diverted or Stolen Nuclear Material through Nuclear Forensic Investigations......Page 389
VI. Information Collection and Analysis......Page 409
The Information Infrastructure of a Treaty Monitoring System......Page 410
The International Level......Page 433
Open Source Information Collection, Processing and Applications......Page 452
The National Level......Page 474
VII. Emerging Verification Technologies......Page 500
Advanced Sensor Technologies......Page 501
Monitoring Reactors with Cubic Meter Scale Antineutrino Detectors......Page 517
Digital Verification Techniques in the Nuclear Safeguards System: Status and Perspectives......Page 527
Emerging Verification Technologies......Page 542
A Sustainable Approach for Developing Treaty Enforcement Instrumentation......Page 553
VIII. Perspectives and Conclusions......Page 566
Continuity and Change in International Verification Regimes......Page 567
Improving Verification: Trends and Perspectives for Research......Page 581
Concluding Remarks......Page 596
List of Authors......Page 611
E......Page 616
P......Page 617
W......Page 618
