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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 4: Verification II: Nuclear Reductions, Nuclear Disarmament and Cyberspace

AGA 4.2: Talk

Thursday, March 14, 2019, 17:15–17:45, U HS 3 Parkstr. 6

Using a Systems Approach in Arms Control and Disarmament Verification — •Irmgard Niemeyer¹, Mona Dreicer², and Gotthard Stein³ — ¹Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany — ²Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA — ³Bonn, Germany

Systems approaches are not new to verification but have generally been used to develop treaty-specific regimes and not considered the state or region as a whole. Inspired by the recent development and implementation of state-level approaches by the IAEA, ways to advance this concept for effective nuclear arms control and disarmament verification were explored. This study aimed at applying a systems approach to formulate an objective, standardized, transparent, and reproducible framework, that can be well-documented, so that stakeholders can confidently use it to identify and address gaps in arms control verification capabilities and approaches. Development of a systems approach that can drive the understanding of the interactions will be crucial to achieving confidence in arms control and disarmament verification. Such a systems approach could also the drive the development and implementation of new verification mechanisms for future agreements.