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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chivers, Daniel H.
• Goldblum, Bethany F. Lyles
• Isselhardt, Brett H.
• Snider, Jonathan S.

Titel

Before the Day After: Using Pre-Detonation Nuclear Forensics to Improve Fissile Material Security

Ist Teil von

• Arms control today, 2008-07, Vol.38 (6), p.22-28

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Arms Control Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Twelve years ago, experts identified "nuclear leakage" -the sale, theft, and diversion of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable fissile materials-as the highest priority in U.S. nonproliferation policy.1 Widespread proliferation of weapons-related information and technology in recent years means that the construction of a crude nuclear device is within terrorists' reach if they are able to acquire sufficient weapons-usable fissile material and are adequately organized.2 A global campaign leading to unambiguous physical protection standards for states in possession of weapons-usable material, therefore, is urgently needed to prevent leakage. Speaking at a diplomatic conference, Linton Brooks, the former head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, pressed that states must accept full sovereign responsibility over activities under their jurisdiction and controlwhether that is trade and border controls or regulation of nuclear materials or nuclear facilities that are in conformance with international regimes.