The United States and Russia rely on their own national technical means of verification (NTM) to collect most of the information needed to verify compliance
with arms control agreements.
It is indeed sobering to be told by an organization, representing two thousand scientists, that «it appears unlikely that the world will avoid a nuclear holocaust if another fifteen years pass
without arms control agreements.»
Proposed arms control agreements or restrictions must not impair the rights of the United States to conduct research, development, testing and operations or other activities in space for the US national interests.»
He detailed how the crisis propelled the United States and the Soviet Union into a limited ban on nuclear testing and then to a series of
arms control agreements in ensuing years.
Although reconnaissance satellites can help to defuse international tensions and
monitor arms control agreements, they can also be powerful offensive weapons.
about PPPL intern Joseph Labrum helped build components for a «zero knowledge» system that may have applicability to future nuclear arms control agreements
Verification is the process that one country uses to assess whether another country is complying with
an arms control agreement.
But some of
those arms control agreements may actually have stopped nuclear war.