Christopher Hobbs, Sarah Tzinieris, Sukesh Aghara

The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security provides a comprehensive global examination of efforts to secure sensitive nuclear assets and mitigate the risk of nuclear terrorism and other non-state actor threats.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192847935
• ISBN-10: 0192847937
• Artikelnr.: 71200546

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hobbs is Professor in Science and International Security within the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He has published widely on nuclear security issues and sought to translate his work into real-world impact. From 2014-2022 he was Programme Director for the UK's Nuclear Security Culture Programme. Dr Sarah Tzinieris is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Science and Security Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. She has published on nuclear security, non-proliferation, and British foreign policy, and previously supported the Nuclear Security Culture Programme, an academia-industry consortium funded by the British government. Sukesh K. Aghara is a Professor and Director of the Nuclear and Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He directs the Integrated Nuclear Security and Safeguards Laboratory (INSSL) and serves as a Nuclear Security Fellow with Center for Terrorism and Security Studies (CTSS).

Inhaltsangabe

* PART I INTRODUCTION
* 1: Christopher Hobbs and Sarah Tzinieris: Nuclear Security
* 2: Friederike Friess and Moritz Kütt: Overview of Nuclear and
Radioactive Materials
* 3: Jason T. Harris and Shraddha Rane: The Interface between Nuclear
Safety and Nuclear Security
* PART II EVOLU TION OF NUCLEAR SECURITY THREATS
* 4: John Mueller: The Risk of Nuclear Terrorism
* 5: Gary A. Ackerman and Bryan R. Early: State Sponsorship of Nuclear
Terrorism
* 6: Andrew Futter and Jason T. Harris: Cyber Threats and Nuclear
Vulnerabilities
* 7: Matthew Bunn: Insider Threats to Nuclear Security
* PART III INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY REGIME
* 8: Yasemin Balci: The International Legal Basis of Nuclear Security
* 9: Wyn Q. Bowen, Matthew Cottee, and Sarah Tzinieris: Evolution of
Global Nuclear Security Governance
* 10: Benjamin Kienzle and Daniel Salisbury: The United Nations
Security Council and the 1540 Committee
* 11: Trevor Findlay: The IAEA's Critical Role in Nuclear Security
* 12: Geoffrey Chapman and William M. Moon: US-Russian Cooperative
Threat Reduction to Secure Nuclear Warheads
* 13: Amandeep Gill: The Four Nuclear Security Summits
* PART IV SECURING NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND ASSETS
* 14: Martin Grigg and Johannes H. Sterba: The Fundamentals of Physical
Protection
* 15: Igor Khripunov and James R. Holmes: Nuclear Security Culture
* 16: Marco Marzo and Sukesh K. Aghara: Nuclear Material Accounting and
Control
* 17: Karl Dewey, Bob Officer, and Benjamin Whittard: Securing Nuclear
Materials during Transport
* 18: Christopher Spirito and Sukesh K. Aghara: Cyber Security for
Nuclear Facilities
* 19: Irman Abdul Rahman, Geoffrey Chapman and Faizal Mohamed:
Radiological Source Security
* 20: Ross Peel and Sukesh K. Aghara: Nuclear Security for
Next-Generation Reactors
* 21: Scott Roecker and Nickolas Roth: Addressing the Confidence Gap in
the Security of Military Nuclear Materials
* PART V NATIONAL APPROACHES TO NUCLEAR SECURITY
* 22: Zenobia Homan, Sarah Tzinieris and Sebnem Udum: Nuclear Security
for Newcomer Countries
* 23: Gregory B. Jaczko: Risk-Informed Nuclear Security Regulation in
the United States
* 24: Christopher Hobbs and Tom Parkhouse: The United Kingdom's
Transition from Prescriptive to Outcome-Focused Nuclear Security
Regulation
* 25: Dmitry Kovchegin: The Evolution of Nuclear Security in Russia
* 26: Xiaobing Guo: Nuclear Security in China
* 27: Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan: India's Approach to Nuclear
Security
* 28: Jinho Chung and Na Young Lee: Nuclear Security in the Republic of
Korea
* PART VI COMBATTING NUCLEAR SMUGGLING
* 29: Egle E. Murauskaite: Illicit Networks and Nuclear Material
Trafficking
* 30: Michael Duitsman and Margarita Kalinina-Pohl: Open Source
Intelligence and Investigative Techniques for Locating Radioactive
Materials
* 31: Craig Marianno: Radiation Detection for Border Monitoring
* 32: Vitaly Fedchenko: The Evolution of the Legal and Technical
Aspects of Nuclear Forensics
* 33: David K. Smith: Case Studies of a Nuclear Forensic Examination
* PART VII PERMANENT THREAT REDUCTION
* 34: Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress and Miles A. Pomper: International Efforts
to Minimize the Use of HEU
* 35: Sunday A. Jonah and Hamisu A. Adamu: Conversion of a Research
Reactor from HEU to LEU in Nigeria
* 36: Chris Englefield: Alternative Technologies for Radioactive Sealed
Sources
* 37: Styrkaar Hustveit, Tone-Mette Sjømoen, Håvar A. Sollund, and
Sindre Øvergaard: Removal of Gamma Blood Irradiators in Norway
* PART VIII NUCLEAR SECURITY DURING TIMES OF CRISIS
* 38: Angela E. Leek and Jeffrey D. Semancik: Nuclear Emergency
Preparedness and Response
* 39: Julia M. Pearce: Responding to Radiological Terrorism
* 40: Nickolas Roth and Daniel Salisbury: Nuclear Security in the Wake
of the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
* 41: Christopher Hobbs and Amelie Stoetzel: Nuclear Security during
the Covid-19 Pandemic