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New DSB Study to Watch

Travis | May 17, 2010 | there are 0 comments 0
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On April 26, USD-AT&L Ashton Carter formally commissioned a new Defense Science Board Task Force to assess nuclear treaty monitoring and verification technologies. “Potential requirements for new or expanded monitoring and verification requirements place a renewed focus – after almost 2 decades of limited investment,” Carter’s memo states, “on the adequacy of the Nation’s technical tools to support monitoring and verification, both as part of the cooperative verification regimes of the treaties and through national intelligence.”

The objective of the Task Force will be to “recommend a comprehensive set of time-phased technical programs that could be conducted” by DOD, DOE, and/or the Intelligence Community, with thought given to how State, DHS, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy might pitch in.

Depending on when its findings are released, this Task Force could affect New START and CTBT ratification deliberations. Stay tuned.

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