Verification Yearbook 2004
by Trevor Findlay (ed.)
Annually, the London-based Verification Research, Training and Information Centre publishes its Verification Yearbook. Edited by Trevor Findlay, the publication is another example of the broad scope of VERTIC’s work.
“Effective verification is crucial for the successful implementation of any functional arms control and disarmament agreement,” states Rogelio Pfirter in his Preface. International debates show how much that is true.
The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 is an example of the trust that can be placed in a treaty bolstered by refined verification measures. Sophisticated verifiability is also a feature of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: almost perfectly verifiable – and since seven years adhered to –, although not yet in force.
The Verification Yearbook 2004 continues VERTIC’s wide-ranging annual coverage of verification developments and trends in arms control and disarmament, the environment and other fields. The Yearbook contains 11 chapters analyzing the topics below:
- Preface – Rogelio Pfirter
- Introduction: the state of play of verification – Trevor Findlay
- Effective CTBT verification: the evidence accumulates – David Hafemeister
- Improving CWC implementation: the OPCW Action Plan – Lisa Tabassi and Scott Spence
- The lessons of UNSCOM and UNMOVIC – Trevor Findlay
- Verifying Libya’s nuclear disarmament – Jack Boureston and Yana Feldman
- Iran and nuclear safeguards: establishing the facts and seeking compliance – Wyn Q. Bowen
- Small arms: monitoring the UN action programme – Helen Hughes
- Monitoring greenhouse gases – Larry MacFaul
- International systems for monitoring and verifying fisheries agreements – Judith Swan
- Intelligence, verification and Iraq’s WMD – Brian Jones
- Monitoring human rights treaties – Patricia Watt
