Verifying Treaty Compliance : Limiting Weapons of Mass Destruction and Monitoring Kyoto Protocol Provisions

International Treaties Requiring Binding Commitments On The Part Of The Member States And Appropriate Compliance Verification By An International Authority Constitute A Primary Assurance Against Risks Posed By The Spread Of Sensitive Technologies That Can Be Used To Produce Weapons Of Mass Destruction Or Risks Posed By Climate Changes Due To Global Human Activities. This Book Presents In An Interdisciplinary Manner Experts' Analyses And Views Of Existing Verification Systems: It Gives Guidelines And Advice For The Improvement Of Those Systems As Well As For New Challenges In The Field. Conceptual Framework -- Conceptual Framework -- Treaties And Their Requirements -- Arms Control And Non-proliferation Treaties: An Ontology Of Concepts And Characteristics -- International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards Under The Treaty On The Non-proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons: Challenges In Implementation -- Verification Under The Chemical Weapons Convention -- Biological Weapons Convention -- Comprehensive Nuclear-test-ban Treaty Verification -- Treaty On Conventional Forces In Europe -- Developing The Climate Change Regime: The Role Of Verification -- Field Experience -- Experience And Challenges In Weapons Of Mass Destruction Treaty Verification: A Comparative View -- A Concrete Experience: The Iraq Case -- Beyond Iraq: The New Challenges To The Nuclear Non Proliferation Regime -- Formal Models Of Verification -- Formal Models Of Verification -- Systems And Linkages - Crosscutting -- Civil Reconnaissance Satellites: Opportunities And Challenges -- Change Detection: The Potential For Nuclear Safeguards -- Aspects Of Networking: Experience From Global Monitoring For Security And Stability -- Environmental Sample Analysis -- Tracing The Origin Of Diverted Or Stolen Nuclear Material Through Nuclear Forensic Investigations -- Information Collection And Analysis -- The Information Infrastructure Of A Treaty Monitoring System -- The International Level -- Open Source Information Collection, Processing And Applications -- The National Level -- Emerging Verification Technologies -- Advanced Sensor Technologies -- Monitoring Reactors With Cubic Meter Scale Antineutrino Detectors -- Digital Verification Techniques In The Nuclear Safeguards System: Status And Perspectives -- Emerging Verification Technologies -- A Sustainable Approach For Developing Treaty Enforcement Instrumentation -- Perspectives And Conclusions -- Continuity And Change In International Verification Regimes -- Improving Verification: Trends And Perspectives For Research -- Concluding Remarks. Rudolf Avenhaus ... [et Al.] (editors). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Conceptual Framework....Pages 13-37 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Treaties: An Ontology of Concepts and Characteristics....Pages 41-60 International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Challenges in Implementation....Pages 61-76 Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention....Pages 77-106 Biological Weapons Convention....Pages 107-134 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verification....Pages 135-152 Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe....Pages 153-169 Developing the Climate Change Regime: The Role of Verification....Pages 171-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 Experience and Challenges in Weapons of Mass Destruction Treaty Verification: A Comparative View....Pages 213-234 A Concrete Experience: The Iraq Case....Pages 235-257 Beyond Iraq: The New Challenges to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Regime....Pages 259-291 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 Formal Models of Verification....Pages 295-319 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Civil Reconnaissance Satellites: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 323-334 Change Detection: The Potential for Nuclear Safeguards....Pages 335-348 Aspects of Networking: Experience from Global Monitoring for Security and Stability....Pages 349-365 Environmental Sample Analysis....Pages 367-387 Tracing the Origin of Diverted or Stolen Nuclear Material through Nuclear Forensic Investigations....Pages 389-408 Front Matter....Pages 409-409 The Information Infrastructure of a Treaty Monitoring System....Pages 411-433 The International Level....Pages 435-453 Front Matter....Pages 409-409 Open Source Information Collection, Processing and Applications....Pages 455-476 The National Level....Pages 477-502 Front Matter....Pages 503-503 Advanced Sensor Technologies....Pages 505-520 Monitoring Reactors with Cubic Meter Scale Antineutrino Detectors....Pages 521-530 Digital Verification Techniques in the Nuclear Safeguards System: Status and Perspectives....Pages 531-545 Emerging Verification Technologies....Pages 547-557 A Sustainable Approach for Developing Treaty Enforcement Instrumentation....Pages 559-571 Front Matter....Pages 573-573 Continuity and Change in International Verification Regimes....Pages 575-588 Improving Verification: Trends and Perspectives for Research....Pages 589-603 Concluding Remarks....Pages 605-619 This book presents an interdisciplinary collection of expert analyses and views of existing verification systems. It provides guidelines and advice for the improvement of those systems as well as for new challenges in the field.