This book addresses Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) verification from the perspective of the United States, including new scientific developments and political analysis on improving compliance verification and efforts to monitor countries of concern.

How can countries verify compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and detect and deter violations? It is in their interest to increase their verification readiness because the assessment of compliance with the treaty rests with states parties to the CTBT. The treaty provides countries with two verification elements: an international system of monitoring stations, and an on-site inspection regime. The monitoring system can detect nuclear explosions underground, in the atmosphere and under water. This book provides incentives to nations around the world on how they can organize their efforts to verify compliance with the CTBT and how they can collaborate with other countries, perhaps on a regional basis, to monitor areas of concern. Such focused efforts can improve their detection and deterrence capabilities through precision monitoring.

The book addresses the CTBT verification from the perspective of countries. It shows how they can create the essential tools for the assessment of the large amounts of data available from the verification regime and other sources, including observations from satellites and thousands of stations outside of the treaty regime. Countries can also use current scientific and technological developments to assist them in verifying compliance with the treaty. The book offers political and scientific analysis on the evolution of the treaty over the years.

The book is intended for professionals in the political, diplomatic, scientific and military fields who deal with international security, non-proliferation and arms control. It is also intended for non-governmental organizations and journalists seeking a better understanding of the nuclear test ban issue and how states can verify compliance with the treaty.

Unique view on the CTBT verification from states' perspectives Recent dramatic scientific developments and their effects on verification capabilities How states can collaborate on technical issues to further political objectives Cooperative efforts in support of international security

Autorentext

Ola Dahlman studied at Lund University, the Royal Institute of Technology and the Defence Collage in Stockholm, He spent his research career at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOA) as a scientist anda research director working mainly on CTBT verification. Dahlman then served as the 1 director of two FOA Laboratories and finally, for six years, as the deputy director general of FOA. After retiringfrom FOA i spent a year as a visiting scientist at the EU Joint Research Centre at ISPRA, Italy,working on the concept of resilience. Parallel to his work at FOA I served as an expert to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs engaged ininternational negotiations, primarily on a nuclear test ban. He chaired for 15 years the Group ofScientific Experts at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and for 10 years the CompeCTBTO Working group on verification in Vienna. He chaired the CTBTO InternationalScientific Study project and its conference in 2009, which essentially was a large-scale S&Tprocess. Further, he worked for a short time at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europein Vienna on Container Security and also co-chaired a three year Strategic Study onBioterrorism with European and Russian bio-experts. Dahlman has co-authored four books; Detect and Deter: Can Countries Verify the Nuclear Test Ban?Springer 2011, Nuclear Test Ban: Converting Political Visions to Reality Springer, 2009, Container Security. A Proposal for a Comprehensive Code of Conduct. National Defense University FortMcNair Washington, 2005, and Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions, Elsevier, 1977.

Inhalt
Introduction.- 1. Setting the Political Stage.- 2. Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions.- 3. Monitoring Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions.- 4. Monitoring Nuclear Explosions in the Oceans.- 5. On-Site Inspections.- 6. Synergy with Science.- 7. Verifying the CTBT A State Perspective.- Index