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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Office of Technology Assessment

The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment closed on September 29, 1995. During its 23-year history, OTA provided Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century. The full text of OTA Reports in Acrobat PDF format are hosted at Princeton University. The National Academy of Sciences and the Government Printing Office. These sites contain all the formally issued reports of the Office of Technology Assessment, as well as many background papers and contractor papers--over 100,000 pages. Texts of some OTA publications are available in text format at a mirror of the original OTA site at Idaho State University. All OTA assessments and the navigation materials at these sites are in the public domain,


Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards (June 1977)
Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards: Appendix Volume II, Part One (June 1977)
Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards: Appendix Volume II, Part Two (June 1977)
The Effects of Nuclear War (May 1979)
Taggants in Explosives (April 1980)
MX Missile Basing (September 1981)
Directed Energy Missile Defense in Space (April 1984)
Arms Control in Space (May 1984)
Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures, and Arms Control (September 1985)
Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (September 1985)
Technologies for NATO's Follow-On Forces Attack Concept (July 1986)
New Technology for NATO: Implementing Follow-On Forces Attack (June 1987)
SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software (May 1988)
Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties (May 1988)
The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions (October 1989)
Verification Technologies: Measures for Monitoring Compliance With the START Treaty (December 1990)
Verification Technologies: Managing Research and Development for Cooperative Arms Control Monitoring Measures (May 1991)
Global Arms Trade: Commerce in Advanced Military Technology and Weapons (June 1991)
Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (July 1991)
Verification Technologies: Cooperative Aerial Surveillance in International Agreements (July 1991)
Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (January 1992)
Monitoring Limits on Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles (September 1992)
The Chemical Weapons Convention: Effects on the U.S. Chemical Industry (August 1993)
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks (August 1993)
Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction (December 1993)
Export Controls and Nonproliferation Policy (May 1994)
Proliferation and the Former Soviet Union (September 1994) [also text]
Nuclear Safeguards and the International Atomic Energy Agency (April 1995) [also text]
U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space (April 1995) [also text]
Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards (September 1995)