Working Group 3, co-chaired by Sweden and the United States, sought to identify solutions for key technical challenges related to monitoring nuclear disarmament, particularly issues relating to nuclear warhead authentication:
- Is the item presented really a nuclear weapon?
- What are the methods for establishing and maintaining chain of custody of both items and facilities?
- Is the monitoring data genuine and is the equipment functioning as expected?
Working Group 3 began by surveying related research and initiatives undertaken to date. The Working Group received a series of presentations on previous key activities and lessons learned from the joint U.S.-UK technical cooperation on nuclear disarmament verification, UK-Norway Initiative, and from individual Partners. This allowed the Working Group to begin to understand the technical requirements and constraints for monitoring nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons dismantlement and to begin to understand various technologies available for the given Basic Dismantlement Scenario.
Final Document
A summary document of this deliverable can be downloaded below.
Background Supporting Documents
- An Overview of U.S. and UK Cooperation to Address Technical Challenges in Verification of Disarmament, NNSA and AWE, March 2015
- An Overview of U.S. and UK Cooperation to Address Technical Challenges in Verification of Disarmament, NNSA and AWE, November 2015
- Mobile Change Detection System, United States Department of Energy and NNSA, February 2016
- Fast Neutron Direct Interrogation, Hirofumi Tomikawa and Yoshiki Kimura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, February 2016
- Explosive Detection: An Overview, Henric Ostmark, FOI, Swedish Defence Rearch, February 2016
- Information Barrier Technique for Nuclear Material Characterisation, M.I. Reinhard, Australian Government, February 2016
- Technology for Disarmament Verification, Jeremy Whitlock, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, February 2016
- Measurement Techniques for Monitored Nuclear Warhead Dismantlement, Gerald Kirchner, University of Hamburg, February 2016
- Radiation-proof Passive RFID, Hirofumi Tomikawa and Yoshiki Kimura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, February 2016
- Use of Gamma Spectrometry in the UKNI Information Barrier Project, Steinar Hoibraten and Tom Plant, UKNI, February 2016
- Unattended Measurement System, Hirofumi Tomikawa and Yoshiki Kimura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, February 2016
- Arms Control Verification Research at AWE, Neil Grant, May 2016
- Technologies for Disarmament Verification, DGRIS, French Ministry of Defense, May 2016
- An Overview of the UK-Norway Initiative, Styrkaar Hustveit, UKNI, November 2016
