ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with another component, societal verification. It shows that the simultaneous employment of both these components would provide adequate protection and satisfy the legitimate concerns about the effectiveness of the treaty. The end of the Cold War and the subsequent collapse of the communist regime and the Soviet Union have eliminated the main rationale for the retention of huge nuclear arsenals. As the name implies, societal verification is based on the involvement of the whole community, or broad groups of it, in contrast to the employment of highly specialized teams of experts required for technological verification. The main form of societal verification is by inducing the citizens of the countries signing the treaty to report to an appropriate international authority any information about attempted violation going on in their countries. The time has come to develop, and recognize consciously, loyalty to a much larger group, loyalty to mankind.
