Verification Technologies: Measures for Monitoring Compliance with the START Treaty

Download or read book Verification Technologies: Measures for Monitoring Compliance with the START Treaty written by Thomas Karas and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report issued just before a Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on Strategic Arms Reductions was due to come before the Senate early in 1991 for its consent. The Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Comm. asked for a study centering on the technologies and techniques of monitoring the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, still under negotiation. This is the summary of the first of the reports to be produced by that study. Contents: Context for This Report; Overview of the Arms Control Monitoring Process; Assessing Monitoring Needs and Capabilities; Monitoring Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles; Monitoring Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles; and Monitoring Bombers and Air-Launched Cruise Missiles. Illus.