Nuclear forensics as nuclear material analysis for security purposes / [electronic resource] Vitaly Fedchenko

SIP1723

"June 2017".

Nuclear forensic science is normally seen as a discipline pertinent to nuclear security and intended to support investigations of illicit tracking or nuclear terrorism cases. This view, while certainly correct in most cases, may be worth revisiting at a time when the process of the Nuclear Security Summits is over, and when the political support for nuclear security may diminish in the future in at least some key states. This paper provides some background to that discussion and describes European contributions to the development of nuclear forensics as a discipline.

The EU Non-Proliferation Consortium is a network of foreign policy institutions and research centres from across the EU engaged in political and security-related dialogue and discussion of measures to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems. The Consortium is managed jointly by SIPRI and three other institutes, in close cooperation with the representative of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The three institutes are the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt (HSFK/PRIF), and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.

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