This book originated from our involvement in the development of this hybrid discipline from its earliest days. During the early 1990s, when the smuggling of nuclear materials was first becoming a reality, we developed and adapted analytic tools based on first-principles nuclear science and an understanding of the stadards of forensic science.
This book originated from our involvement in the development of this hybrid discipline from its earliest days. During the early 1990s, when the smuggling of nuclear materials was first becoming a reality, we developed and adapted analytic tools based on first-principles nuclear science and an understanding of the stadards of forensic science.
Nuclear forensic analysis (or nuclear forensics) is an example of such a new discipline. Certain nuclear forensic techniques have been used for many years in isolated applications, including: * IAEA safeguards system verifying compliance with the treaty’s prohibitions on the manufacture of a nuclear weapon by a non-nuclear weapon state; * Enforcement of controls on the transfer of nuclear mat…