The International Monitoring System is the top global seismic network for monitoring nuclear weapon tests…
Nuclear Weapons
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a…
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It…
Students from across the United States recently attended Nuclear Weapons Accident / Incident Response Training…
How do weapons inspectors verify that a nuclear bomb has been dismantled? An unsettling answer…
Over the past century, military leaders and policy makers in the United States have sought…
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is keeping the Doomsday Clock set at two minutes to midnight…
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is increasing spending on a secret research…
“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” My anthropology class replied, “SpongeBob SquarePants.” Their…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) released details this week of…
The detonation of carbon-rich high explosives yields solid carbon as a major constituent of the…
The U.S. State Department’s Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Bureau of Arms Control,…
Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) has been awarded a contract for continuation of a…
Successful prosecution of nuclear smuggling often hinges on technical nuclear forensic evidence and the ability…
A new Explosives Handler Training program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), conducted in partnership…
Nuclear forensics involves determining where illicit or smuggled radioactive material came from. In the event…
A technique for detecting enriched uranium with lasers could help regulators sniff out illicit nuclear…
Research aimed at creating a new biosensor that would help military investigators search for signs…
Topics in this issue of CBRNE Particles include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has announced intentions to award a sole-source contract to…