Oleg Bukharin, James Doyle, "Verification of the Shutdown or Converted Status of Excess Warhead Production Capacity: Technology Options and Policy Issues," Science & Global Security, 10, no. 2, (2002): 103-124.
Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy has announced that nuclear warhead assembly and disassembly will be phased out at two out of four existing facilities. Arms reductions could result in a closure of additional facilities in Russia and other nuclear weapons states. A transparency regime to monitor their shutdown or converted status could become an important element of future arms control and nonproliferation initiatives as well as a possible element of the emerging U.S.-Russian nuclear security partnership. This article explores possible approaches to monitoring former warhead assembly facilities and discusses anticipated difficulties of implementing such a transparency regime.
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