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Chapter 5.
Improve the Tools: Access, Sense, Assess
5.1. Introduction
The second “how” in the Task Force’s assessment, illustrated in Figure 5‐1, addresses the “tool
box” to support proliferation monitoring and verification. Figure 5‐1 conveys the three
principal areas for effective monitoring, each of which is in need of improvement:
• Access—global in a range of possible environments;
• Sensing—through radiation detection, post‐event collection and analysis, and
application of new modalities;
• Assessment—involving exploitation of massive and disparate data sources.
Further, as illustrated in Figure 5‐1 and discussed earlier in Chapter 1, integration and iteration
of monitoring results, within and across the full scope of monitoring environments, will be
required if monitoring is to support verification.
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Nuclear Treaty Monitoring Verification Technologies
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