Overview
- Offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of both the technical and policy dimensions of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons
- Written by prominent experts in nuclear policy, science, and technology who designed and team taught the course on which the book is based
- Designed for senior undergraduate and graduate students in nuclear engineering, materials science, physics, chemistry, public policy, and political science programs and as a reference for researchers and policy-makers in nuclear security
- Includes worked problems to develop a deeper understanding of the technical issues
- Provides technical depth on nuclear policy issues not found in nuclear engineering textbooks
- Offers a sophisticated analysis of key government policy decisions in the U.S. and other states
- Presents a lucid account of the incentives and disincentives for the acquisition of nuclear weapons
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- nuclear security textbook
- nuclear enrichment
- atomic energy commission
- arms control measures
- nuclear proliferation
- nuclear deterrence
- nuclear weapons verification
- nuclear detonation monitoring
- regional proliferation
- nuclear disarmament
- nuclear stockpile stewardship
- nuclear materials detection
- nuclear forensics
- radiation detection
- pre- and post-detonation nuclear forensics
- closed fuel cycle policy
- proliferation resistant policy
- climate change and nuclear war
- radiological terrorism
- nuclear stockpile surveillance
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Michael Nacht is the Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author and co-editor of Strategic Latency and World Power (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2014), the author of The Age of Vulnerability: Threats to the Nuclear Stalemate (Brookings, 1985) and more than eighty journal articles (in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Survival, Daedalus and others) and book chapters. He has twice served in US Senate-confirmed positions associated with nuclear weapons policy. He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (2009-2010) for which he received the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department’s highest civilian honor. Previously he was Assistant Director for Strategic and Eurasian Affairs of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1994-1997) for which he received the Distinguished Honor Award, the Agency’s highest honor. He received a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics andan M.S. in Operations Research from New York University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
Michael Frank is a design physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who splits his time between work related to the nuclear weapons stockpile and countering nuclear terrorism. He worked previously for a decade on nuclear threat assessment and incident response. Dr. Frank received a B.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, an M.P.P. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He and Dr. Nacht have taught the course on which the book is based at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Stanley Prussin was a faculty member in the University of California, Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering from 1966-2015. For many years he taught the Department's courses in nuclear physics for applications and engineering science applications of nuclearmedicine, among many others. His research interests were in low-energy nuclear physics and nuclear forensics, for which he was internationally noted. He received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, among many others. Professor Prussin received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Michigan. Professor Prussin helped conceptualize the proposed volume and drafted initial technical sections. He passed away from cancer in 2015.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nuclear Security
Book Subtitle: The Nexus Among Science, Technology and Policy
Authors: Michael Nacht, Michael Frank, Stanley Prussin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75085-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75084-8Published: 20 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75087-9Published: 21 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75085-5Published: 19 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Security Science and Technology, Nuclear Energy, International Security Studies, Nuclear Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy Security