Advanced sensor technologies

Abstract

5 Conclusion: Many technologies are already available that could improve verification. Others are on the horizon, in particular using advances in microsystems- and nanotechnology. Intensified and widened research would help, even though not all projects will lead to practicable verification means or methods. Even though the availability of means and methods for adequate verification is a necessary prerequisite for agreements that limit military capabilities in the interest of peace and international security, ultimately, the decision to enter such agreements is a political one. A task of major importance is thus to improve the conditions for such decisions. © 2006 Springer Berlin · Heidelberg. © 2006 Springer Berlin · Heidelberg.