Title: Falling behind : international scrutiny of the peaceful atom /
Authors: Sokolski, Henry D.; Army War College (U.S.).
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College,
Year: 2008
Subjects: International Atomic Energy Agency Evaluation.; Nuclear nonproliferation.; Radioactive substances Detection
Abstract: If possible, it would be useful to enhance the International Atomic Energy Agency?s ability to detect and prevent nuclear diversions. This would not only reduce the current risk of nuclear proliferation, it would make the further expansion of nuclear power much less risky.
Contents: Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. Assessing the IAEA's ability to verify the NPT / Henry D. Sokolski -- Part II: New IAEA inspections possibilities -- 2. Can we track source materials better - Do we need to? / Jack Edlow -- 3. Novel technologies for the detection of undeclared nuclear activities / Nikolai Khlebnikov, Davide Parise, and Julian Whichello -- 4. Wide area environmental sampling in Iran / Garry Dillon -- Part III: Safeguards limits and premises -- 5. Can nuclear fuel production in Iran and elsewhere be safeguarded against diversion? / Edwin S. Lyman -- 6. Adequacy of IAEA's safeguards for achieving timely detection / Thomas B. Cochran -- 7. Managing spent fuel in the United States: the illogic of reprocessing / Frank von Hippel -- 8. The NPT, IAEA safeguards and peaceful nuclear energy: an "inalienable right," but precisely to what? / Robert Zarate -- Part IV: The Agency's authority -- 9. The Nuclear non-proliferation regime: avoiding the void / Pierre Goldschmidt -- 10. The U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative: the question of safeguards / Quentin Michel -- 11. Financing IAEA Verification of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty / Thomas E. Shea.