Verification in an Age of Insecurity: The Future of Arms Control Compliance
The Future of Arms Control Compliance
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2009
224 pages
978-0-19-977096-0 (ISBN)
Description
Verification in an Age of Insecurity takes the reader into some of the most urgent arms control issues facing the world community, including the nuclear activities of rogue states and threats from sophisticated non-state actors. In the book, national security expert Philip D. O'Neill, Jr. identifies and addresses issues from the resuscitated disarmament agenda, from the comprehensive test ban to fissile material and biological weapons. O'Neill examines the need for shifts in verification standards and policy suitable for our volatile era and beyond it. He surveys recent history to show how established verification procedures fail to produce the certainty necessary to meet today's threats. Verification in an Age of Insecurity goes beyond a discussion of rogue states like North Korea to offer suggestions on how best to bring compliance policy up to date with modern threats.
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- I. Introduction: Risky Business
- II. The Evolution of Certainty
- A. Introduction
- B. The Superpower Era
- (i) The Role of Parity
- (ii) The Adequacy of Verification
- C. The Post-Cold War Period
- (i) Enhanced Certainty
- (ii) The Cost of Uncertainty
- D. The New Insecurity
- III. The Price of Intrusion
- A. Introduction
- B. The Traditional Calculus
- C. The Political Price
- D. Managed Access
- E. Disarmament
- (i) The Trilateral Initiative
- (ii) North Korea: A Future Test Case?
- (iii) Future Problems
- F. The Limits of Cooperative Intrusion
- IV. The Legacy of Uncertainty
- A. Problems in Principle
- B. Metrics in Context
- C. Challenges on the Horizon
- (i) Bio Security
- (ii) Fissile Material
- D. Process Considerations
- E. Enforcement Predictability
- V. Conclusion: Deliverance from Insecurity
- Appendices
- Acronyms
- Index
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