From the collections of the Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive. Campaign! 1998/07 Published Jul 1998. Published by CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Magazine/Journal/Paper/etc Section Public Archive C English Kindly donated by Gail. Originally at http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/10437.pdf
Topics: nuclear, cnd, trident, weapons, peace, pakistan, august, international, conference, reprocessing,...
Centrifugal tensioned metastable fluid detectors (CTMFDs) promise a compact, easy to use, highly sensitive, robust, discriminatory, mobile sensor platform that could detect the presence of special nuclear materials in real time. CTMFDs could help in the detection of fast neutrons or alpha particles that are telltale signs of nuclear material, while remaining blind to gamma radiation that could otherwise interfere with the desired measurement. CTMFDs have a simple, easy-to-use equipment string...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Chiaverotti,Dominic J, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, alpha...
This report summarizes the information exchange at the Modern Topics in Energy and Power Technical Meeting hosted by the Energy and Power Division at the US Army Research Laboratory and held at the Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, Maryland, 14-16 July 2015. The meeting's 8 sessions focused on energy conversion technologies, energy and power for directed energy, high-energy-density materials, plasma and nuclear physics, low-energy nuclear reactions, novel compact power sources, quantum vacuum...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Zheleva,Tsvetanka, ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD ADELPHI United States, Army research,...
Today, few studies focus on how the international community should approach Iran once it crosses the nuclear threshold. David Kay, author of The Iranian Fallout, highlights what is missing from contemporary literature when he asks, What policies will limit any advantage, political or military, that Iran might gain from nuclear weapons? This paper presumes, Iran will produce a significant quantity of highly enriched uranium despite international efforts to the contrary, and second, Iran will...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Adkins,Larry D, Air War College Air University Maxwell AFB United States, iran,...
Preservation of nuclear weapon tacit knowledge has not previously been linked to maintaining a credible US nuclear deterrent. President Obamas 2009 Prague speech committing the US to seek a world without nuclear weapons, has yielded two policy debates: the necessary arsenal size and force configuration required to have a credible deterrent while following the Road to Global Zero nuclear weapons, and the potential feasibility of getting to zero due to shortcomings in monitoring and verification....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Buffett,Stephanie J, Air War College Air University Maxwell AFB United States,...
The need for rapid nuclear assessment of radioactive contamination is being upgraded in readiness for reactor failure such as the recent Fukushima disaster or nuclear terrorism events. Current methods require large field samples and lengthy sample preparation and analysis time. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficiency of microwave-enhanced sample preparation methods for rapid sample decomposition, allowing chemical separations and spectrometry analyses. A unique new laboratory...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Miller,Logan, NorthStar Engineered Technologies, LLC Madison United States, nuclear...
LiF thermo luminescent dosimeters (TLDs) are used by the United States Navy to record radiation exposure of personnel. The DT -648 has been used for many years and has undergone extensive testing to identify its pre-irradiation and post-irradiation fade operating characteristics. Studies have shown that the addition of copper increases the thermoluminesence sensitivity of the TLD for improved low-level radiation monitoring, which prompted the introduction of theDT-702lPD LiF: MCP TLD as a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Delzer,Jeffrey A, Uniformed Services University Of The Health Sciences Bethesda...
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, a priority of U.S. policy has been primarily to reduce the perceived threat posed by Iran to a broad range of U.S. interests, including the security of the Persian Gulf region. U.S. officials also express a broad range of concerns about Irans human rights abuses. The implementation of a July 14, 2015, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement between Iran and six negotiating powers appeared to represent an opportunity to reduce...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Katzman,Kenneth, Congressional Research Service Washington United States, iran,...
This study analyzes how the new nuclear declaratory policy, espoused in the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, balances the goals of deterrence and nonproliferation. The author concludes that increasing complexity in the nuclear arena makes reliance on the legacy policy of calculated ambiguity both increasingly hazardous for deterrence and decreasingly effective as a nonproliferation tool. These detrimental outcomes demand innovation in strategic thinking and revision of nuclear declaratory policy,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Franklin,David M, Air University, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies Maxwell...
Nuclear weapons, due to their awesome destructive power, are special weapons which demand special attention and focused stewardship. They still represent the greatest potential threat to our way of life, yet are important guarantors of our security. Deterrence remains their primary function. To deter effectively, they must represent a credible and capable threat with a high degree of survivability against a preemptive attack.
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On March 14, 2003, when the debate on the Special Prosecution Law Regarding the Money Transfer to the North was still under way, President Roh Moo-hyun announced that he would endorse the bill which had been passed by the National Assembly session attended only by the members of the opposition party, the Grand National Party, in late February 2003. The majority of the public involved in the debate, in particular those who supported President Roh during the election and the sunshine policy of...
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Several U.N. Security Council resolutions required Iran to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agencys (IAEAs) investigation of its nuclear activities, suspend its uranium enrichment program, suspend its construction of a heavy-water reactor and related projects, and ratify the Additional Protocol to its IAEA safeguards agreement. However, Tehran has implemented various restrictions on, and provided the IAEA with additional information about, its uranium enrichment program and...
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The US Air Force (USAF) has created radiation dose levels to indicate how much environmental exposure to ionizing radiation is necessary to warrant further individual dose investigation as well as decide what medical surveillance is necessary. However, gross alpha and beta screening limits for radionuclides in soil that would coincide with these dose levels have not been developed. USACHPPM (United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine) has received soil samples from...
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As I continued to teach, though, I noticed another gap in the literature. The arguments policymakers and academics were making on how nuclear weapons reductions related to preventing further nuclear proliferation were, at best, uneven. Each of the basic viewsofficial, hawkish, and academicspotlighted some important aspect of the truth, but each was incomplete and surprisingly optimistic. The current official U.S. view, shared by most arms control proponents, is that any state that has nuclear...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sokolski,Henry D, ARMY WAR COLLEGE CARLISLE BARRACKS PA CARLISLE BARRACKS, nuclear...
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) leaves Iran with residual capabilities that positions it for the rapid development of nuclear weapons should it abandon the deal. This thesis examines how the JCPOA affects Saudi Arabia and what actions the Saudis are likely to take. The Saudi premise of whatever they have, well have in regard to Iran leans toward a Saudi Arabian nuclear hedging strategy, but is it feasible? This thesis proposes a model that explores the interaction of threat,...
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This report is the unclassified portion of the nineteenth in a series of monthly reports of the work in process on materials development for the Atomic Energy Commission under Contract AT(40-1)2847. Included is a summary of the work from October 15, 1962, to December 15, 1962, on three of the fourteen specific development programs in process. Five of the remaining programs are reported in the classified portion of this report, GEMP-19, Part B. The other six, involving the development of ceramic...
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In recent years, there has been a steady development of techniques to detect nuclear and radiological materials at standoff distances for nuclear nonproliferation and national security. These techniques include neutron detectors [1] and gamma-ray detectors [2] which require the production of highly energetic (MeV) electron beams, by large, heavy accelerators. An investigation of several technique involving either a light filament, or a combination of light filaments, was made. The objective was...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Diels,Jean-Claude, University of New Mexico Albuquerque United States, Nuclear...
The nuclear agreement between the (P5 1) countries and Iran is a recognition by the international community to put Iran back as before the 1979 revolution. However, the infinite political complexities that are intertwined today in the whole Middle East will not disappear instantaneously with this nuclear agreement and the complexities of the political status in the region are adding to the difficulty in determining what Iran foreign policy would be after the nuclear deal. The paper will present...
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In 2002 homeland security became the number one priority in the National Military Strategy. With evidence of terrorism in the United States (US), protecting the homeland became the new mission. The slightest mention of a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat can cause outrage, fear, terror, and panic. The US Army recognizes the three-dimensional nature of modern warfare and the need to conduct a fluid mix of offensive, defensive,...
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This analysis describes the application of the NATO CBRN casualty estimation methodology to nuclear and radiological weapon threats. In the planning process, casualty estimates may influence the course of action selected, the flow of personnel into the theater, or the amount and timing of the medical assets moved into the theater. For illustrative purposes, the situation is that a commander has asked his staff to plan an operation by a light infantry battalion task force (LIBN). An alternative...
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In this study nanostructured a-Al2O3 ceramics have been fabricated by the combined application of magnetic pulsed compaction (MPC) and spark plasma sintering (SPS), and their density and hardness properties were investigated. The combined application of the MPC and the SPS produced very fine and dense alumina ceramics. The measured grain size was 330nm being slightly higher than the size of the starting powder (200-300nm), suggesting a very low degree of grain growth during the MPC and SPS...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Kim, Whung W, KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INST DAEJEON (SOUTH KOREA) NUCLEAR...
Irans national security policy is the product of many, and sometimes competing, factors: the ideology of Irans Islamic revolution; Iranian leaderships perception of threats to the regime and to the country; long-standing Iranian national interests; and the interaction of the Iranian regimes various factions and constituencies. Some experts assert that the goal of Irans national security strategy is to overturn a power structure in the Middle East that Iran asserts favors the United States and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Katzman,Kenneth, Congressional Research Service Washington United States,...
This essay explores the connection between security guarantees and nuclear proliferation by allies of great powers. I propose a model to explain why U.S. allies pursue nuclear proliferation. I assert that this movement toward nuclear weapons occurs when an ally perceives that the U.S. defense commitment has become insufficient for the threat environment. I test this model using a case study of South Koreas exploration of nuclear weapons in the 1970s.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Brown,J W, School of Advanced Air And Space Studies, Air University Maxwell Air Force...
This paper argues that minimum deterrence is a viable policy option for the United States. The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review has laid the groundwork for a reduction in size of the US nuclear arsenal while at the same time, constrained economic resources promise to force the Department of Defense look for responsible ways to reduce its budget. Given this situation, the question must be asked as to whether the United States can achieve effective nuclear deterrence with a limited number of weapons....
Topics: DTIC Archive, Olson,Jeremy E, AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL MAXWELL AFB United States, Deterrence,...
The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran changed the geo-political landscape of the Middle East. The new regime in Tehran, hostile to the United States, threatened American interests in the region. In response, the United States adopted a policy of containment aimed at restoring a regional power balance favorable to the United States. Since that time, broader U.S. policy in the region has been driven in large measure by pursuit of this policy. Minimizing Iranian influence became a critical component...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gustafson, Andrew J, Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth United...
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, black markets for nuclear material rapidly expanded and proliferation by both state and non-state actors soared. The Department of Defense began a lengthy process of creating mechanisms to address the proliferation through what ultimately became a strategic comprised of three pillars: nonproliferation, counterproliferation, and consequence management. The Department of Defense ultimately achieved unity of command by enforcing organizational...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glenn,Andrew S, US Army School for Advanced Military Studies Fort Leavenworth United...
In March 2011, northern Japan was subjected to a devastating earthquake and tsunami. One of the many secondary effects of these disasters was a loss of control of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. This led to the dispersal of radioactive material into the environment, both immediately and over the following months. The focus of this research is on how various technologies were used to ascertain the extent of radioactive contamination, to prevent the spread of radioactivity that had already...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Dion-Schwarz,Cynthia, RAND National Defense Research Institute Santa Monica United...
The elemental and isotopic composition of radiological or nuclear material, along with its macroscopic and microscopic appearance, is often unique to its mode of production. In this way, such data may be used as a nuclear fingerprint for source attribution should such material be interdicted. A key component of the nuclear fingerprint for source attribution is the determination of the elapsed time (age) since the last chemical purification. During production, the nuclear material is purified...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mercier,Jean-Francois, Health Canada Ottawa, Ontario Canada, nuclear materials,...
The Nuclear Disaster Summit was a two-day international conference held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Thought leaders with diverse expertise, including nuclear physics and engineering, biology, policy, security, and health issues participated in the event, designed to address: (1) prevention of nuclear accidents, (2) preparing and securing nuclear facilities in the event of catastrophic natural disasters, (3) assisting survivors in impacted areas in both the near- and long-term,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Steen,Tomoko, Georgetown University Washington United States, NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS,...
Israels preventive attacks against Iraqs Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 and Syrias Al-Kibar nuclear site in 2007 are often used to illustrate a fundamental precept of realismthat states will use military force to halt the rise of a rival state, especially if that rival attempts to gain a nuclear weapons capability. However, this approach does not fully explain the timing of such attacks, nor does it account for the consequences of violating another states sovereignty. In contrast to realisms...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Allbright,James J, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States, international...
This chapter begins by examining the questions, What are America's interests, vis--vis North Korea? and What should America be willing to do to ensure the integrity of its interests?. Between 1950 and the late 1980s, the U.S. government predominately viewed North Korea as a direct threat against the security of South Korea, an important East Asian ally. During this period, in order to deter North Korea from attacking South Korea and to assure South Korea of Americas intention to defend its...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Minnich,James M, ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES HONOLULU HI HONOLULU United...
In 2014, a Defense Science Board Task Force was convened in order to assess and explore new technologies that would aid in nuclear proliferation monitoring. One of their recommendations was for the director of National Intelligence to explore ways that crowdsourced geospatial imagery technologies could aid existing governmental efforts. Our research builds directly on this recommendation and provides feedback on some of the most successful examples of crowdsourced geospatial data (CGD).As of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Leno,Kenyon M, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States, counter...
The primary motivation for this research is to ensure that the nuclear enterprise remains safe, secure, and effective for many years to come. A safe, secure, and effective nuclear force not only serves as a credible deterrent against U.S. adversaries, but also provides assurance for its allies. A history of failures in safety and security within DOE, however, called into question the credibility of the U.S. nuclear deterrent and DOEs ability to accomplish the mission. Similarly, the current...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Pabst,David O, AFIT WPAFB United States, nuclear weapons, nuclear materials, Nuclear...
Since at least 1994, when the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States Government (USG) has been concerned about the stability and security on the Korean peninsula, primarily because of the DPRKs nuclear program. As recent as January 6, 2016, the DPRK conducted another nuclear test, which was largely condemned by the international community. United States Government policies are geared towards a denuclearized North...
Topics: DTIC Archive, SPENCER,ELTRESSA D, AIR WAR COLLEGE, AIR UNIVERSITY MAXWELL AFB United States, north...
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Transporting nuclear fuel can be problematic in a world where terrorists could use the fuel for a bomb. This film was shown to law enforcement officials across the U.S. to enlist their help with fuel transports.
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From the collections of the Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive. Freedom Vol:40 #02 Anarchist Fortnightly Published 10 Feb 1979. Published by Freedom. Magazine/Journal/Paper/etc Section Public Archive F/Freedom English See also 6096 for information on Volume 40. Originally at http://www.thesparrowsnest.org.uk/collections/public_archive/10056.pdf
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The Energy Act 2004 requires the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), a non-Departmental body, to review and publish its strategy at least every five years. This document also presents the outcome of the NDA's review of the first Strategy published in 2006. This revised Strategy sets out the NDA's strategic direction and mission. The core objective of the NDA is to ensure that the historic civil public sector nuclear legacy sites are decommissioned safely, securely, cost effectively and in...
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A 2001 paper by Rodger C. Martin and Steven E. Kos on existing and potential applications of the radioisotope Calfornium-252 in waste and nuclear materials characterization.
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A Symposium with Clive Dilnot, Timothy Morton, Karen Pinkus, Allan Stoekl, Cameron Tonkinwise, and Damian White, at the New School, April 8, 2011.
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A roundtable on ecology and the humanities featuring Tim Morton, Ursula Heise, Cate Sandilands, and Rob Nixon. At âCross-Cultural Ecocriticism(s): Waves and Undertows,â Rutgers University, February 25, 2011.
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