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The logical politics of verification are shaped by the structure of the problem of evaluating cooperation under semi-anarchical conditions. The practical politics of verification are driven by players' attempts to use verification arguments to promote their desired security outcome. This framework is systematically applied to test ban verification politics from the earliest proposals for international control of atomic energy through the Reagan Administration announcement that a Comprehensive Test Ban was not a U.S. priority, even if one could be satisfactorily verified.","The historical material shows that agreements on verification regimes are reached when key domestic and international players desire an arms control accord and believe that workable verification will not have intolerable costs. Failure to reach agreement occurs for two reasons. First, the superpowers traditionally employ adversarial forms of verification that exacerbate pressures for unilateral gain in an arms control regime through cheating or spying. Since the way verification decisions are made changes perceptions, incentives and abilities for cooperation, it is very difficult to design stable adversarial verification regimes. Second, players who do not want significant arms control exacerbate the structural difficulties of designing mutually acceptable verification regimes in order to block or minimize cooperation.","For the politics of verification to major arms control agreements, current conceptions of verification must be broadened to provide appropriate reassurance as well as deterrence of violations, and to incorporate more joint verification decision-making. 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