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ensure accuracy. Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons
Plutonium: Reactor-Related Options by this material. As long as
this material remains in readily weapon-usable form, it will:
continue to be vulnerable to theft (by parties other than the
possessor state) and diversion (by the possessor state) for use
in nuclear weapons (which we call the direct risks); send the
signal that a reversal of current arms reductions remains
possible, with negative consequences for arms reduction and
nonproliferation efforts (the indirect risks). The timing of
disposition options is crucial to minimizing both types of
risks. Minimizing the time until the start of operations to
transform the surplus WPu into forms less easily used for
weapons, and minimizing the time until this transformation is
completed, are of obvious value in reducing the