Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller is announcing today at the P5 Conference in London that the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification’s first meeting will take place March 19-20 in Washington, according to a State Department official with knowledge of the event. The partnership was created to join nuclear weapon states with non-nuclear weapon states to increase understanding of and address nuclear disarmament verification challenges. The U.S. believes the framework will strengthen ongoing work toward Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty goals, “while furthering the role of NNWS in the challenging work of verification of nuclear disarmament,” according to a State Department fact sheet.
The department is partnering with the U.S.-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, which is helping to develop and implement a program of work. “The International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification will assess and, potentially, develop approaches to address monitoring and verification challenges across the nuclear weapons lifecycle—including material production and control, warhead production, deployment, storage, dismantlement, and disposition,” the fact sheet states. “The Partnership will build on lessons learned from efforts such as the U.S./U.K. Technical Cooperation Program and the U.K./Norway Initiative.”
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