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Article VI of the NPT states, among other things, that each party to the NPT must undertake effective measures in the field of arms control and disarmament of nuclear weapons.

As a result of the 1996–2002 joint project of the Russian Federation, the United States and the IAEA, called the “Trilateral Initiative”, the partners proposed an innovative method for IAEA verification of fissile material in support of nuclear disarmament to the IAEA [SHE 15].

In early 2007, representatives from the UK Ministry of Defence, the Atomic Weapons Establishment, several Norwegian laboratories and the non-governmental organization VERTIC (Verification Research, Training and Information Centre) began work on the best techniques for the verification and control of the effective disarmament of nuclear weapons. This was the first time that a nuclear-weapon state, a non-nuclear weapon state and an independent NGO collaborated in this area of research. This work was presented at the 2009 NPT PrepCom [UKN 10b].

The results of three years of collaboration between experts from Norway and the United Kingdom, to study the technical and procedural problems associated with a possible nuclear disarmament verification regime, were presented in a report. The report encourages the international community as a whole to contribute to the ultimate goal of an effective verification regime for the dismantlement of nuclear weapons [UKN 10a].

In 2010 and 2011, the United States and the United Kingdom undertook a warhead monitored dismantlement (WMD) exercise to investigate the methods for two nuclear-weapon states to verify compliance with an arms reduction treaty. The two fictitious countries negotiated the use of NDA (non-destructive analysis) and CoC (chain-of-custody) measuring equipment [HAU 16].