This book describes the problems encountered by UN inspection teams assigned to find and destroy Iraq's nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile capabilities following Desert Storm. It examines some of the lessons to be learned regarding the vulnerabilities of arms control verification.

Kathleen C. Bailey is a senior fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she conducts research on national security and arms control issues. She previously served in the U.S. government as assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and director of research in the U.S. Information Agency. Dr. Bailey's publications include Doomsday Weapons in the Hands of Many: The Arms Control Challenge of the 90s (1991) and Strengthening Nuclear Non-proliferation (Westview Press, 1993). She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and Asian Studies from the University of Illinois.

Preface -- Introduction -- Chemical Weapons Inspections -- Biological Weapons Inspections -- Nuclear Weapons Inspections -- Ballistic Missile Inspections -- Iraqi Circumvention of Export Controls -- Summary -- List of UNSCOM Inspections and Sites -- United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (1991) -- United Nations Security Council Resolution 707 (1991) -- United Nations Security Council Resolution 715 (1991)