"What Types of Nuclear Material Require What Levels of Security?"

Institute for Nuclear Materials Management Workshop on Risk-Informing Security

Presentation, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

February 11, 2014

Author: Matthew Bunn, Professor of Practice; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Public Policy

In this presentation to an Institute for Nuclear Materiials Management workshop on risk-informing security, Matthew Bunn proposes a new approach to judging which materials would be easiest or more difficult for terrorists to use in a nuclear bomb, and hence which materials require more or less security.

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