Verification Challenges and Opportunities

In July 2014, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) released Innovating Verification: New Tools & New Actors to Reduce Nuclear Risks—a four-report series that outlines the recommendations from NTI’s Verification Pilot Project, which involved more than forty technical and policy experts from around the world. The two-year project was undertaken in collaboration with senior leaders from the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, and State as well as the governments of Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The reports focus on key verification challenges and include recommendations governments around the world can undertake to strengthen nuclear security and nonproliferation efforts and enable future warhead reductions. As the security environment continues to change, further cooperation in this area can generate more robust scientific and technical engagement, provide stability over time, and ultimately enable progress on critical threat reduction measures.