Trust & Verify
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Issue number 124, March-October 2007
Volker Beck examines the status of reporting and reviewing under UN
Security Council Resolution 1540, while Daryl Kimball assesses the prospects
for US ratification of the CTBT. Plus a detailed look at the challenges
facing CITES, as well as the regular features: Verification Watch, Science
and Technology Scan, and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue number 123, March 2006-March 2007
Jan Lodding and Bernardo Ribeiro examine the international nuclear safeguards regime, while Oliver Dambock assesses reporting under multilateral environmental agreements. VERTIC turned 20 in 2006, and fittingly, we were busier than ever furthering the cause of verification-speaking at seminars and workshops around the world, redesigning the website and, as always, publishing articles, chapters and reports in our own products and those of our non-governmental and international organization colleagues. This issue provides a summary of what we did, what we published, who joined or left the centre, who supported our work with grants and commissions, and what the media asked us over the course of the past year. Finally, there are the regular features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, VERTIC News and Events and Verification Quotes.

Issue number 122, October 2005-February 2006
John Carlson examines the role that bilateral nuclear safeguards can play in providing non-proliferation assurance, while Matt Peterson reviews the work of the Aceh Monitoring Mission and explores the EU's latest approach to monitoring peace agreements. Plus Verification Watch and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue number 121, July-September 2005
Sean West examines some of the challenges to CTBT entry into force, while
Yana Feldman and Beth Nikitin explore Saudi Arabia’s Small Quantities Protocol. Plus Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 120, May-June 2005
Andreas Persbo assesses the North Korean nuclear problem, while Duncan Brack examines the European Union (EU)’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 119, March–April 2005
Andreas Persbo looks towards the 2005 NPT Review Conference, while Oliver Meier examines the use of test ban monitoring data by tsunami warning organizations. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 118, January–February 2005
Samir Puri examines international election observation in Ukraine, while Larry MacFaul looks at progress made at COP10 and future climate change challenges. Plus Verification Watch, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 117, November–December 2004
David Young looks at a new way of independently monitoring forestry activities, while Erik Asplund considers the compromise deal on the application of nuclear safeguards in Brazil. Plus Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events. A special feature, Election Monitor, replaces Peace Missions Monitor in this issue.

Issue no. 116, September–October 2004
Daryl Kimball examines the prospects for the negotiation of a fissile material cut-off treaty, while Angela Woodward looks at the UN Secretary-General’s mechanism for investigating alleged use of chemical and biological weapons. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 115, July–August 2004
Kristie Barrow assesses attempts to deal with the RDD threat, while Jessica McLaughlin examines nuclear verification technology research in the US. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 114, May–June 2004
Jessica McLaughlin analyzes arrangements for protecting the confidentiality of verification information, while Kristie Barrow looks at peace monitoring in Northern Ireland. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 113, March–April 2004
Kavita Rajagopalan looks at the lack of monitoring and verification in the India–Pakistan conflict, while Larry MacFaul examines European unity in regard to action on climate change. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 112, January–February 2004
Jack Boureston, Yana Feldman and Charles Mahaffey assess Libya’s WMD capabilities and related verification challenges, while Ben Mines examines developments regarding the Iraq Survey Group. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 111, November–December 2003
Larry MacFaul examines the climate change reporting system, while Jennifer Kinzeler assesses peace monitoring in Liberia. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 110, September–October 2003
Angela Woodward examines the legislation that states parties to the Biological
Weapons Convention must adopt in order to meet their fundamental treaty
obligations, while Trevor Findlay and Peter Gudritz assess monitoring challenges
in Africa. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 109, July–August 2003
Jean Pascal Zanders introduces the BioWeapons Prevention Project and highlights its objectives, while Ben Mines examines developments in the hunt for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 108, May–June 2003
Trevor Findlay and Ben Mines assess the situation regarding Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, while Molly Anderson looks at the problem of quantifying sustainable development. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 107, March–April 2003
Ben Mines looks at the successes of both the IAEA and UNMOVIC in Iraq since November 2002, while Kenneth Boutin uses the Iraqi case to highlight the factors that can hinder the effectiveness of verification. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 106, January–February 2003
Kenneth Boutin assesses the nuclear crisis in North Korea and its consequences for the global nonproliferation regime, while Alex Wood analyses UNMOVIC’s potential for success in Iraq. Plus a review of the Yearbook on International Co-operation on Environment and Development 2002/2003 and all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 105, November–December 2002
Trevor Findlay analyses the challenges facing the UN inspection mission in Iraq, while Kenneth Boutin assesses methods of verifying technology transfer controls. Plus all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 104, September–October 2002
Kristina Hinds assesses monitoring in the Congo, John Hart offers a timely book review on Iraq’s nuclear and biological weapons agenda, while Molly Anderson and Vanessa Chagas reflect on the Johannesburg summit. Plus Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 103, July–August 2002
Nikolai Sokov analyses the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, while Alexandra González-Calatayud reviews Earth Summit 2002: A New Deal, edited by Felix Dodds. Plus all of the usual features: Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 102, May–June 2002
Trevor Findlay assesses the turmoil surrounding the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, while Vanessa Chagas examines the Agenda 21 monitoring mechanism. In addition, all of the usual features: Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 101, March–April 2002
Tom Milne examines global spending on nuclear disarmament verification work, while Mirak Raheem assesses the challenges facing the Temporary International Presence in Hebron. In addition, all of the usual features: Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 100, January–February 2002
The first edition of Trust & Verify was published in June 1989 by the then Verification Technology Information Centre. VERTIC, just three years old, was headed by Patricia Lewis and was based in Southampton Street, London. The founding editor of Trust & Verify was John Grounds and the co-editor was Julie Cator. Richard Guthrie later became its long-serving editor. The first edition dealt entirely with arms control and disarmament verification, as that was VERTIC’s original brief. After 1989 VERTIC broadened its agenda to encompass any international agreement that requires monitoring and verification, particularly environmental and peace accords. To mark the 100th edition of Trust & Verify, we present a bumper issue, with a lead article examining how far verification of arms control and disarmament agreements has come since issue number one. Trust & Verify wishes all of its readers a peaceful and prosperous new year.

Issue no. 99, September–October 2001
David Hegarty assesses peace monitoring in the Solomon Islands, Rosalind Reeve analyses the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), while Molly Anderson examines the outcome of the COP6 environmental meeting. In addition, all of the usual features: Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 98, July–August 2001
Trevor Findlay looks at the prospects for the biological weapons protocol, while Angela Woodward examines the issue of domestic enabling legislation for the Landmine Convention. In addition, all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Verification Quotes, Book Reviews and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 97, May–June 2001
Oliver Meier assesses verification measures for the proposed biological weapons protocol, while John Russell examines the end of on-site verification under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. In addition, all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes and VERTIC News and Events.

Issue no. 96, March–April 2001
Professor Terry Wallace analyses whether Iraq conducted a nuclear weapons test, John Hart looks at the financial crisis facing the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, while Rosalie Gardiner and Clare Tenner analyse preparations for the 2002 Earth Summit. In addition, all of the usual features: Verification Watch, Science and Technology Scan, Peace Missions Monitor, Verification Quotes, Book Reviews and VERTIC News and Events.

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