Preface -- Introduction -- Arms Limitation and Control: Improving the Institutional Mechanisms for Resolving Compliance Issues -- The Technical Basis for Verification of a Low Threshold or Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -- Verification of Compliance with the ABM Treaty and with Limits on Space Weapons -- Verified Elimination of Nuclear Warheads and Disposition of Contained Nuclear Materials* -- Verifying a Production Cutoff for Nuclear Explosive Material: Strategies for Verification and the Role of the IAEA -- Verifying START -- Verification and Chemical-Warfare Weapons -- Verification of Biological and Toxin Weapons Disarmament -- Verification and Conventional Arms Reductions * -- The Elimination of Nuclear Arsenals: Is It Desirable? Is It Feasible? -- Arms-Control Verification in a Changing World -- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs -- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Since 1957, the Pugwash Conferences have brought together influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of nuclear war. Meeting in private as individuals, rather than as representatives of their governments or institutions, Pugwash participants exchange views with a combination of candour and flexibility seldom found i