TY  - JOUR
T1  - Verification of the Shutdown or Converted Status of Excess Warhead Production Capacity: Technology Options and Policy Issues
AU  - Oleg Bukharin, James Doyle
PY  - 2002
T2  - Science & Global Security
SP  - 103
EP  - 124
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.
UR  - http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs10bukharin.pdf
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