DR. DAVID HAFEMEISTER
Physics Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA

NATIONAL ACADEMY STUDY
ON THE COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY

After the 51-48 defeat of the CTBT in the Senate, General John Schalikashvili (Former Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff) commissioned the National Academy of Sciences to examine the following technical issues, which will be summarized*:

• US Capacity to maintain safety/reliability and design/evaluation of its nuclear stockpile without testing.
• International/US capability to monitor a nuclear test ban, including evasion scenarios.
• Ability of nations to increase nuclear capability with/without cheating and the potential effect on of cheating on US security

These results will be related to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the earth-penetrating warheads, and some compliance issues.

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* Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, National Academy Press, 2003. D. Hafemeister, Physics of Societal Issues, Springer-Verlag and AIP Press, 2004.

David Hafemeister is a Professor (emeritus) of Physics at Cal Poly. He spent a dozen years in Washington with the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Governmental Affairs (1990-93), Senator John Glenn (1975-77), State Department (1977-79, 1987) US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1997-8), and at the National Academy of Sciences (2000-02), and at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and the Lawrence-Berkeley, Argonne and Los Alamos national laboratories.