Publication

This issue of Disarmament Forum takes a look at the verification of arms control agreements. How do states parties to international treaties verify compliance with their obligations? Beginning with an exploration of the crucial role science and technology play in ensuring effective verification, articles go on to examine specific regimes, including conventional arms embargoes and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Our contributors also discuss how potential future agreements on outer space and a nuclear weapons convention could be verified, as well as the growing role of civil society in ensuring compliance with international arms control agreements.