Overview
- The authors of the papers are well known and leading experts in the world
- The authors are representatives of the world leading organizations engaged in combating nuclear threats
- Advanced scientific and technologies for developing national nuclear preparedness are discussed
- Can serve as a tool for multi-national scientific and technical communities for developing the national preparedness programs for nuclear and radiological threats
- Useful for decision makers and public health care providers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics (NAPSB)
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Table of contents (24 papers)
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Front Matter
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Response and Recovery
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Detection and Protection
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About this book
The nuclear crisis in Fukushima and growing threats of nuclear terrorism must serve as a wake-up call, prompting greater action to prepare ourselves for nuclear and radiological disasters. Our strategy to prepare for these threats is multi-layered and the events of these past years have proved the necessity to re-evaluate the national and international preparedness goals on a scale never before considered.
The programme of NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Preparedness for Nuclear and Radiological Threats” has been focused on science and technology challenges associated with our need to improve the national and international capacity and capability to prevent, protect against, mitigate the effects of, respond to, and recover from the nuclear and radiological disasters, including nuclear and radiological accident, terrorist attack by Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) or by “Dirty Bomb”-Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), that pose the greatest risk to the national and international security and safety.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nuclear Terrorism and National Preparedness
Editors: Samuel Apikyan, David Diamond
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9891-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9890-7Published: 23 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9935-5Published: 21 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9891-4Published: 08 July 2015
Series ISSN: 1874-6500
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 263
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Security Science and Technology, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Nuclear Energy