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Confident development and stockpiling of nuclear weapons may or may not require full yield testing, depending on the nature of the weapons, the prior experience and technical capabilities of the developers, and the degree of assurance required that the weapons will perform as intended.
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For an overview on third-generation nuclear weapons, see: T. B. Taylor, Endless Generations of Nuclear Weapons, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 12–15, Nov. 1986; T. B. Taylor, Third-Generation Nuclear Weapons, Scientific American, vol. 256, no. 4, pp. 22-31, April 1987
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Taylor, T.B. (1989). Can Nuclear Weapons Be Developed Without Full Testing?. In: Altmann, J., Rotblat, J. (eds) Verification of Arms Reductions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46684-7_9
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