Verifying Nuclear Disarmament

Fetter, Steve

Verifying Nuclear Disarmament

dc.contributor.author	Fetter, Steve
dc.date.accessioned	2007-01-02T19:47:21Z
dc.date.available	2007-01-02T19:47:21Z
dc.date.issued	1998-03
dc.description.abstract	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 would confer enormous military and political advantages over non-nuclear adversaries. Finally, nuclear know-how cannot be eliminated, and any nation that had dismantled its nuclear weapons would be capable of quickly assembling a new arsenal from scratch or using civilian nuclear materials. Because of the difficulty of verifying that other states had eliminated all their weapons and providing adequate warning of their rearming, it is argued, states would not agree to disarm in the first place.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Fetter, Steve. "Verifying Nuclear Disarmament," in Frank Blackaby and Joseph Rotblat, ed., Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998), pp. 71-100.	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0813335179
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4023
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Westview Press, The Perseus Books Group	en
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	School of Public Policy	en_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Public Policy	en_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland	en_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)	en_us
dc.rights.license	Westview Press, The Perseus Books Group: http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/	en_us
dc.subject	nuclear disarmament	en
dc.subject	verification	en
dc.subject	nuclear weapons	en
dc.title	Verifying Nuclear Disarmament	en
dc.type	Book chapter	en