Nuclear Weapons R&D Organizations in Nine Nations (open access)

Nuclear Weapons R&D Organizations in Nine Nations

This report describes the organizations controlling research and development (R&D) on nuclear weapons in several nations, and presents a brief history of the organizations controlling nuclear weapons R&D in the United States. It discusses whether these organizations are civilian or military, though in many nations the lines between civilian and military are blurred.
Date: February 28, 2011
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan; Belkin, Paul; Kan, Shirley A.; Kerr, Paul K.; Mix, Derek E. & Nikitin, Mary Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Plant and Plutonium Disposition: Management and Policy Issues (open access)

Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Plant and Plutonium Disposition: Management and Policy Issues

This report discusses the control of surplus nuclear weapons material that became an urgent U.S. foreign policy goal with the end of the Cold War and breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Date: March 28, 2014
Creator: Holt, Mark & Nikitin, Mary Beth D.
System: The UNT Digital Library