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1: Vitaly Fedchenko: Introduction 1. - Part I. Nuclear Forensic Methods. - 2: Vitaly Fedchenko: The Process of Nuclear Forensic Analysis 11. - Appendix 2A.: Sophie Grape: Basic Facts and Definitions Related to Measurement 34. - 3: Klaus Mayer, Maria Wallenius, Zsolt Varga, Magnus Hedberg, and Nicole Erdmann: Inorganic Mass Spectrometry as a Tool of Destructive Nuclear Forensic Analysis 47. - 4: Sophie Grape: Gamma Spectroscopy as a Tool of Non-destructive Nuclear Forensic Analysis 74. - 5: Klaus Mayer, Maria Wallenius, and Zsolt Varga: Sample Characteristics and Nuclear Forensic Signatures 93. - 6: Lars-Erik de Geer: Radionuclide and Signatures Relevant for Post-explosion Environments 128. - Part II. Nuclear Forensics in Practice. - 7: Vitaly Fedchenko and Robert Kelley: The Origins of Nuclear Forensic Analysis I: the United States and the Soviet Union 159. - 8: Lars-Erik de Geer: The Origins of Nuclear Forensic Analysis II: analysis of nuclear weapon debris in Sweden 184. - Appendix 8A: Lars-Erik de Geer: Detection by Sweden of Chinese Nuclear Tests in the Atmosphere 211. - 9: Vitaly Fedchenko and Robert Kelley: Applications of Nuclear Forensic Analysis 228

"...explores the roles played by various actors in the domestic governance of nuclear weapons in eight possessor states--the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan..." -- p.2

The debate on no-first-use of nuclear weapons has been conducted on a number of fronts. First use of nuclear weapons has come under challenge from many different directions: from church synods, from international lawyers, in debates at the United Nations, and from strategic thinkers. Originally published in 1984, this book takes stock for and against no-first-use and examines the political, military and arms control implications of such a commitment.