The grand picture of verifying nuclear disarmament: What needs to be done? | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The grand picture of verifying nuclear disarmament: What needs to be done? | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: With today’s nuclear weapon modernization efforts and plans, as well as recent dangerous changes in nuclear policy, in particular the United States’ Nuclear Posture Review, the goal of a world without nuclear weapons—global zero—seems very far away. Given this peculiar situation, however, efforts to prepare for nuclear disarmament must be redoubled. This includes developing new verification approaches for a future in which sanity prevails and the numbers of nuclear weapons in the world are greatly reduced.