Verification , Compliance , and Enforcement

The Adelphi Paper Abolishing Nuclear Weapons will play an important part in the whole nuclear disarmament initiative that was kicked off in 2007 by a combination of the Hoover Institution and Nuclear Threat Initiative's " Reykjavik Revisited " project; the Kissinger–Nunn–Perry–Shultz op-ed articles in the Wall Street Journal; Margaret Beckett's keynote address at have woven a strong fabric of possibility for the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons without glossing over the difficult problems that have yet to be solved. The key aspect of this paper is that it doesn't try to solve all of the problems. The paper instead addresses some of the most controversial issues pertaining to global nuclear disarmament and lays the foundation for building a stable structure for future global security. Not least of these issues are verification, compliance, and enforce-ment—the Golden or Bermuda Triangle of issues, depending on your perspective. This commentary will focus on them.