1. Arms Control and Disarmament Agreements. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1982, 290 pp. A comprehensive guide to the texts and histories of negotiations of the arms control treaties the U.S. has signed.
2. Aspin, Les. “The Verification of the SALT II Agreement.” Scientific American. Vol. 240, No. 2, February, 1979, pp. 38–45. U.S. Representative Les Aspin concludes that “the multiple and duplicative methods of detection at the disposal of the United States are sufficient to reveal any cheating on a scale adequate to threaten this country militarily.” Aspin also thinks that the verification standards of SALT III would have to be lowered significantly as a result of technological advances in cruise missiles and transferable MIRV payloads.
3. Buchan, Glenn. “The Verification Spectrum.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Vol. 39, November, 1983, pp. 16–19. Buchan examines three schools of thought on verification (substantive, legalistic and metaphysical), and discusses their meaning in the SALT/START process.
4. Krepon, Michael. Arms Control: Verification and Compliance. Headline Series, No. 270. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1984, 64 pp. This monograph presents the basic concepts of verification and illuminates current compliance controversies. It examines both the politics of and Soviet views on verification. Two chapters deal with treaty compliance and “compliance diplomacy.”
5. Verification: The Critical Element of Arms Control. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1978, 35 pp. A concise report dealing with the different political, ideological and technical aspects and consequences of verification in past, present and future agreements.