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From:Science (Vol. 236) Peer-ReviewedTest Ban Compliance: Is Seismology Enough? GEOPHYSICIST Gregory E. van derVink, director of a nuclear test ban verification study being conducted by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, uses an apt...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 17, Issue 18)On-site Inspection Agency monitors net security, traffic with remote probes The motto of the On-site Inspection Agency, which monitors foreign compliance with nuclear weapons treaties, is "Trust and verify." OSIA...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe end of the Cold War, which reduced the danger of a nuclear war, has ushered in a period of arms control negotiations between the US and Russia. A series of major treaties and unilateral initiatives have been signed...
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From:Science (Vol. 235) Peer-ReviewedTechniques and Strategies of Verification In this issue of Science we publish a Policy Forum on one of the most important controversies of our time: the verification of arms control agreements. The format differs from...
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From:Science (Vol. 236) Peer-ReviewedMissile Pact Edges Closer In the late 1970s, the Western alliesexpressed growing alarm at the imminent deployment of three new types of Soviet missiles capable of striking targets virtually anywhere in Western Europe....
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From:Science (Vol. 235) Peer-ReviewedChemical Weapons Pact Edging Closer AN outline agreement on an internationalconvention banning the development, production, and use of chemical weapons could be reached within the next 12 months, according to Western...
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From:Weekly Epidemiological Record (Vol. 83, Issue 44)Introduction Enhanced measles-elimination activities in WHO's Region of the Americas during the early 1990s underscored the existence of significant morbidity from rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in the...
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From:Science (Vol. 240, Issue 4850) Peer-ReviewedTest Ban Test Back on Track A team of Soviet seismologists arrived in the United States on 6 April to monitor a series of chemical explosions that will be set off near the underground nuclear test site in Nevada. The...
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From:Science (Vol. 248, Issue 4957) Peer-ReviewedGamma-Ray Measurements of a Soviet Cruise-Missile Warhead SEA-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILES (SLCMs) POSE SERIOUS problems for nuclear arms control and for the security of the United States, the Soviet Union, and other...
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From:Constitutional Commentary (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) represented a challenge to the US Supreme Court's Appointments Clause jurisprudence. The treaty stipulates that multinational representatives will conduct unplanned inspections...
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From:Science (Vol. 238, Issue 4826) Peer-ReviewedA Low-Threshold Test Ban Is Feasible IN FEBRUARY 1987, THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION RESTATED its position on nuclear testing as follows (1): "As long as we depend on nuclear weapons for our security, we must insure that...
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From:Science (Vol. 255, Issue 5049) Peer-ReviewedIn the aftermath of the Gulf War, revelations about Iraq's extensive program to develop nuclear weapons challenge the future of the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. Until inspections sanctioned by the U.N....
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From:Science (Vol. 246, Issue 4931) Peer-ReviewedDispelling Myths About Verification of Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION ARE NOW engaged in negotiations to reduce their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons. These Strategic Arms...
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From:Science (Vol. 240, Issue 4848) Peer-ReviewedNew Spy Satellites Urged for Verification AFTER holding closed-door hearings over the past 6 months on some of the nation's most secret spy technologies, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has concluded that...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 49, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedA 1993 US-Russian treaty calls for the conversion of uranium in the former USSR from weapons material to nuclear fuel, and the sale of the uranium to the US. Fair trade competition, relations with the Ukraine, and...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedFree or low-cost sources of unstructured information, such as Internet news and online discussion sites, provide detailed local and near real-time data on disease outbreaks, even in countries that lack traditional...
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From:Science (Vol. 238, Issue 4826) Peer-ReviewedFacing Nuclear Reality IT IS A TEMPTING BUT DANGEROUS OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF the complexities surrounding U.S.-Soviet relations to think that abolishing nuclear weapons will eliminate the tensions between our two...
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From:Science (Vol. 281, Issue 5373) Peer-ReviewedAn enforcement protocol of the bioweapons convention, now under negotiation, could affect some biotech firms and academic microbiologists Some biotechnology companies and academic biology labs could soon find...
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From:Science (Vol. 240, Issue 4856) Peer-ReviewedU.K. Group to Set up Soviet Seismic Station A privately funded group of British scientists has been given permission by the Soviet government to carry out a series of experiments in the Soviet Union designed to...
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From:Science (Vol. 262, Issue 5131) Peer-ReviewedThe government's push for the end of nuclear-weapon testing has meant budget and staff cuts at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Researchers continue to design new weapons on computers and develop...