how nuclear inspectors can inspect other countries nuclear weapon inventories and uranium refining abilities in a way that can be trusted and not just staged by the inspected country

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how nuclear inspectors can inspect other countries nuclear weapon inventories and uranium refining abilities in a way that can be trusted and not just staged by the inspected country

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To add on to what others have said:

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Inspectors know they are being hoodwinked (like basically all inspectors whether it is OSHA or nuclear weapons and ethnic cleansing)

So there is a LOT of work into more sensitive sensors and “techniques”. So “We were making nukes here yesterday but are in the basement now” is pretty ineffective because the inspectors would detect traces

But it is also keeping an eye out for processes designed around hiding/obscuring things, identifying where equipment may have been moved, etc.