NUCLEAR EXPLOSION DETECTIONSpace-Based Nuclear Detonation Detection Mission Endures

By Kristen Meub

Final Global Burst Detection system from current series launches as next series prepares for future launches. The network of satellites, sensors, and ground stations can detect, time-stamp, and record electromagnetic pulse energy in specific bands, and X-ray and optical signals.

• Read more

NUCLEAR DETECTIONSoftware Application Keeps Public Safer from Potential Airborne Radiological Releases

Developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, QUIC-DEPDOSE accurately measures the spread of radiological particles from the kilometer to micron level.

• Read more

IRAN’S NUKESWe Need a New Discussion About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Work

By David Albright and Sarah Burkhard

U.S. intelligence is shielding the Biden-Harris administration from having to take serious action on Iran’s nuclear program. While hinting at nuclear weapon activities taking place, the U.S. intelligence community is focusing on public Iranian statements and old news on Iran’s capabilities to produce weapon-grade uranium — but it avoids any type of public discussion on what nuclear weaponization activities Iran may be undertaking, and how soon it can build a nuclear weapon. Likely, because some uncomfortable truths would come out: Iran can do it way too quickly, and initial activities to build the bomb could be difficult to detect.

• Read more

NUCLEAR FORENSICSUranium Science Researchers Investigate Feasibility of Intentional Nuclear Forensics

Despite strong regulations and robust international safeguards, authorities routinely interdict nuclear materials outside of regulatory control. Researchers are exploring a new method that would give authorities the ability to analyze intercepted nuclear material and determine where it originated.

• Read more

NUCLEAR WEAPONS‘Risks of Nuclear Terrorism Are High and Growing.’ New Tools, Alliances, Renewed Focus Needed, experts recommend

By Cyrus Moulton

For roughly 80 years, the United States has managed the threat of nuclear terrorism through nonproliferation treaties, agency programs, intelligence activities, international monitoring support and more, withstanding the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and 9/11. A National Academies committee wants to ensure the U.S. remains prepared.

• Read more

IRAN’S NUKESAnalysis of the IAEA’s Iran NPT Safeguards Report - May 2024

By David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Andrea Stricker

For the second time in its quarterly safeguards reports on Iran’s compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has drawn attention Iran’s current ability to make nuclear weapons. Without strong and decisive action y the IAEA, Iranwill succeed in steadily augmenting its nuclear program penalty-free, enabling it to build a nuclear weapon more quickly than Western powers could detect and stop.

• Read more