Verification over several decades and the views i will be presenting are my own and not intended to represent views of those ive been associated with such as the department of defense and the Nuclear Treaty monitoring and verification. My statement draws in part on those experiences and on the Defense Science Board Task force report as well as the work of a nongovernmental task force on verification requirements for Nuclear Agreement with iran. Neither of the two task forces makes a judgment as to whether compliance with any particular Nuclear Agreement is ver fibl. Indeed, we do not yet know the details of the monitoring provisions that will emerge in the iranian agreement now under association or in such an agreement will be concluded. The Defense Science Board Task force report underscores that monitoring Nuclear Programs is very challenging. And that the technical capabilities to do so are limited. But the report suggests a number of steps that can be taken to make monitoring more