The National Interest

The Evolving Missions of Technical Nuclear Forensics

THE SOVIET Union’s detonation of its first nuclear device in August 1949—just four years after the end of World War II—is remembered as a startling event for the United States and its allies, who had ...
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Soldiers, Airmen train for nuclear forensics mission at interagency exercise in Houston

HOUSTON – Highly specialized U.S. military units trained for nuclear forensics missions with interagency partners during Exercise Prominent Hunt in Houston, May 1 - 5. Soldiers from the 20th Chemical, ...
Defense One

Why Ukrainian soldiers came to Idaho to study nuclear forensics

It’s a long way from the Donbas region of Ukraine to Idaho, but Ukrainian officials recently made the trip to learn about collecting evidence after a nuclear attack. Ten soldiers from the Armed Forces ...
Yahoo

State Department reps attend nuclear forensics meeting in Italy

A handout photo by the Iran Atomic Energy Organization reportedly shows inside Iran's Fordow nuclear facility, in Fordow, Iran, in November 2019. U.S. airstrikes recently weakened Iran's nuclear ...
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Sustaining and Improving the Nation's Nuclear Forensics Capabilities

Nuclear forensics is the examination and evaluation of discovered or seized nuclear materials and devices or, in cases of nuclear explosions or radiological dispersals, of detonation signals and ...
iaea.org

Supporting Countries in Nuclear Forensics at the Re-designated IAEA Collaborating Centre in Hungary

Hungary’s Centre for Energy Research was the first IAEA Collaborating Centre in the area of nuclear security, with a focus on nuclear forensics. With its recent re-designation for another four-year ...
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Soldiers, Airmen validate capabilities for nuclear forensics mission during exercise in Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. – U.S. military units trained for domestic nuclear forensics missions with interagency partners during Exercise Prominent Hunt in Jackson, Mississippi. Soldiers from the 20th Chemical, ...

U.S. Cold War Waste Reuse May Spur Nuclear Energy and Pharmaceuticals

The U.S. government launched a new operation extracting rare materials from Cold War era nuclear waste that is likely to ...
New Atlas

Modern forensics seeks origin of uranium cubes from Nazi A-bomb project

A team of researchers is using state-of-the-art forensic techniques to solve the riddle of the origin of uranium cubes that were used as part of the Nazi effort to develop nuclear weapons during the ...
iaea.org

Webinar on IAEA Nuclear Security Series No. 2-G: Implementing Guide on Nuclear Forensics in Support of Investigations (Spanish)

Nuclear forensics involves a comprehensive plan undertaken by States to determine the origin and history of nuclear and other radioactive material in support of law enforcement or nuclear security ...
The National Interest

The Evolving Missions of Technical Nuclear Forensics

First developed for nuclear test monitoring and treaty verification purposes during the Cold War, modern nuclear forensic capabilities are now used to determine the provenance of nuclear materials ...