Recent terrorist attacks demonstrated that even sophisticated terrorists capable of planning and executing multiple, coordinated attacks continue to rely on traditional weapons rather than risk the uncertainty of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) weapons. While some terrorist organizations have the motivations and capabilities to conduct large attacks worldwide, we have not y...

The following discussion presumes some broad arms limitation program, rather than simply a nuclear test ban, and focuses on the inspection of economic records as part of an effort to verify adherence to (detect evasion of) an agreement limiting weapons production. The special problems involved in inspecting different kinds of weapons production-for example, aircraft, missiles, and fissionable m...

The possibility of a state, which has imported fast reactor with closed fuel cycle enterprises, breaching the nuclear non-proliferation regime and secretly using acquired equipment, technologies, materials to originate weapons is discussed. It assumed that most likely development events could be an importing state combining clandestine overt scenarios: for preparatory period non-nuclear compone...

Throughout the 1990s, the United States national security establishment gradually espoused the idea of a growing threat posed by the proliferation of a variety weapons and weapons technologies that could cause mass casualties to combatants and noncombatants alike. Nuclear weapons had long occupied the rhetorical space used by policy makers to describe weapons that could kill on a mass scale, bu...