Toward a Comprehensive Safeguards System
Keeping Fissile Materials out of Terrorists' Hands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9751682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Siegfried S Hecker (Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University,Los Alamos National Laboratory, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 607 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-132 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716206290273 |
| OpenAlex | W2125311829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is today’s greatest security concern. The importance of keeping fissile materials out of the hands of terrorists is now generally accepted. The difficulty of doing so is not. Lack of appreciation, especially for the technical difficulties, is hampering our ability to build a comprehensive safeguards system and prevent nuclear terrorism
Business · Computer security · Fissile material · Neutron · Nexus (standard · Nuclear terrorism · Nuclear weapon · Physics · Political science · Risk analysis (engineering · Terrorism · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Nuclear and radioactivity studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2018 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |