Verification of Disarmament of Nuclear Material

In HSFK-Report 3/2009 Annette Schaper proposes a catalogue of measures to improve the verification of disarmament of nuclear material

On the way to total nuclear disarmament the transitional phase bears particular challenges In HSFK-Report 3/2009 Verifikation der Abrüstung von Kernmaterial (Verification of disarmament of nuclear material), Annette Schaper faces these specific problems. Huge amounts of redundant highly enriched uranium and plutonium have to be downgraded and put irreversible under ward of international safeguards. She deals with the arguments of opponents of nuclear disarmament and outlines solution processes.