Strengthening Nuclear Security Against Terrorists and Theives Through Better Training
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George Bunn, who served on the U.S. delegation that negotiated the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), is a Consulting Professor at the StanfordUniversity Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Fritz Steinhausler is a Professor of Physics and Biophysics at the University of Salzburg in Austria and a Visiting Professor at CISAC. Lyudmila Zaitseva is a Visiting Researcher at CISAC who is on the staff of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan. All three work on the Stanford-CISAC project,“Strengthening Global Practices for Protecting Nuclear Material Against Theft and Sabotage.”
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تاریخ انتشار 2001