Isotopic fingerprinting of the world's first nuclear device using post-detonation materials

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4195-4198

  Bellucci, Jeremy J ^a   Simonetti, Antonio ^a   Wallace, Christine ^a   Koeman, Elizabeth C ^a   Burns, Peter C ^a,b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC INVESTIGATION; GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND; ILLICIT NUCLEAR MATERIALS; INTERNATIONAL SECURITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FINGERPRINTING; ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENT; TERRORIST ACTIVITIES;

DETONATION; NETWORK SECURITY; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 84876257358     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: 15206882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ac400577p     Document Type: Article

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