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Identifying a hidden warhead

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A means of verifying that nuclear warheads to be dismantled are genuine items has been proposed that potentially reveals no information to an inspector about the design of the weapons. Two experts explain the ins and outs of the method and its implications for arms-control policy. See Article p.497

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Figure 1: Conventional warhead-verification scheme.

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  1. John Finney is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,

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  2. James M. Acton is at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC 20036-2103, USA.,

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Finney, J., Acton, J. Identifying a hidden warhead. Nature 510, 476–477 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/510476a

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