ABSTRACT
The instruments and techniques used for arms control verification are exactly the same as those used for the gathering of military and political intelligence. Arms control verification, as the junior partner of military intelligence, has been the mostly inadvertent beneficiary of this remarkable technical effort. This chapter describes a very few of the devices that were developed primarily for verification purposes, yet now that they exist they have the potential to create the technological base for significant progress towards genuine disarmament. Certainly the most significant technological development in the field of arms control verification has been the photographic reconnaissance satellite. The aspects of SIGINT/COMINT which are most relevant to present arms control problems and which seem to have become accepted as legitimate national technical means are the monitoring of radar signals and the radio transmissions (telemetry) from missile test-flights.
