Verification regimes work where the dangerous activity has a gross physical signature: nuclear weapons need rare materials and large tests that are easy to monitor without intrusion, while biotech and nanotech threats would require verification at the molecular level in ordinary labs, which no non-intrusive regime can do.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  The physical objects monitored to detect hostile nuclear weapons activity are large-scale and easy to verify, particularly when compared to what is needed to monitor for future offensive biotechnology and nanotechnology use.

• groundsGaming the Future, Allison Duettmann

  Those involve molecular machines, so they require verification at the molecular level.

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