Nuclear disarmament verification via resonant phenomena

Verifying Nuclear Disarmament

Commentators differ on whether nuclear disarmament would be desirable, but many argue that disarmament is impractical because it could not be verified. Three reasons are often offered for such pessimism. First, nuclear weapons are small and difficult to detect, and one could not be sure that a few weapons had not been hidden away. Second, nuclear weapons are so destructive that a mere handful w...

The Prospects for Global Nuclear Disarmament

Predicting the future can be a risky business, but predicting the future of nuclear disarmament is especially difficult, linked as it is to the core security concerns of very powerful countries. Not only is the subject imperfectly defined but it is constantly evolving under the influence of forces that are too numerous and too complex to allow for any confident projections. Yet because the issu...

Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd: Hardware and Software Challenges for Nuclear Disarmament Verification

The verification of nuclear disarmament will require the use of adequate measurement technologies. All will need to enable inspecting parties to trust the measurement chain leading to valid and correct results, while ensuring host countries that classified information–especially warhead-design information–remains secure. However, this seems particularly difficult with technologies that rely hea...

The Non-Aligned Movement and Nuclear Disarmament: Stance and Actions

The emergence of nuclear weapons as a new actor in international relations has introduced a new area in the international security arena. Since the appearance of these weapons, there have been increasing efforts to limit and destroy them in order to achieve global peace in the framework of disarmament and centered around the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Along with the eme...

Numerical Simulation of Transport Phenomena in Nuclear Cores