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dc.contributor.author	Fetter, Steve
dc.contributor.author	Garwin, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned	2007-01-26T17:39:32Z
dc.date.available	2007-01-26T17:39:32Z
dc.date.issued	1990
dc.description.abstract	An agreement on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) may place numerical and geographical limits on more than 140,000 treaty-limited items (TLIs)1 in 21 countries. Monitoring limits on such huge numbers of TLIs would be extremely difficult, as well as expensive and intrusive, with human inspectors alone. This chapter examines a promising way to effectively monitor limits while reducing cost and intrusiveness: the tagging of TLIs. The use of tags transforms a numerical limit into a ban on untagged items. The result is that many of the verification advantages of a complete ban can be retained for a numerical limit. Tagging works by certifying that every TLI observed is one of those permitted under a numerical limit. A tagging system would involve the manufacture of a number of tags equal to the number of TLI, which would then be affixed to an essential part of each allowed TLI. If even one untagged TLI were ever seen—during on-site inspections (OSI), by national technical means (NTM), or even by nationals of the inspected party loyal to the treaty regime—then there would be prima facie evidence of a treaty violation. If properly designed, tags could also identify a TLI as belonging to a particular nation or as normally deployed in a particular region, which would make it easier to verify CFE sub-limits on national and regional deployments.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Steve Fetter and Thomas Garwin, "Tags," in Richard Kokoski and Sergey Koulik, eds., Verification of Conventional Arms Control in Europe: Technological Constraints and Opportunities (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 139–154.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4046
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/westview/	en_us
dc.subject	treaty-limited items	en
dc.subject	conventional armed forces	en
dc.subject	verification	en
dc.subject	inspections	en
dc.title	Tags	en
dc.type	Book chapter	en