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Title India-United States cooperation on global security : summary of a workshop on technical aspects of civilian nuclear materials security / Rita Guenther [and three others], Rapporteurs ; Committee on India-United States Cooperation on Global Security, Technical Aspects of Civilian Nuclear Materials Security, National Academy of Sciences the National Academies ; in cooperation with the National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
Published Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents 1. Introduction and overview of civilian nuclear materials -- 2. Systems approach to security at civilian nuclear facilities -- 3. Physical security at civilian nuclear facilities -- 4. Cybersecurity at civilian nuclear facilities -- 5. The importance of people in securing civilian nuclear facilities -- 6. The emerging science of nuclear forensics -- 7. Nuclear energy and the challenge of development in India -- 8. Implementing systems approaches to security at civilian nuclear facilities -- 9. General discussion and suggested future actions
Summary Annotation The U.S. government has made safeguarding of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium an international policy priority, and convened The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., on April 12 and 13, 2010. Forty six governments sent delegations to the summit and twenty nine of them made national commitments to support nuclear security. During the Summit, India announced its commitment to establish a Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership. The Centre is to be open to international participation through academic0 exchanges, training, and research and development efforts."India-United States Cooperation on Global Security" is the summary of a workshop held by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) together with its partner of more than 15 years, the National Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bangalore, India. The workshop identified and examined potential areas for substantive scientific and technical cooperation between the two countries on issues related to nuclear material security. Technical experts from India and the United States focused on topics of nuclear material security and promising opportunities for India and the United States to learn from each other and cooperate. This report discusses nuclear materials management issues such as nuclear materials accounting, cyber security, physical security, and nuclear forensics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 5, 2013)
Subject Nuclear terrorism -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses
Smuggling -- United States -- Prevention -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Nuclear terrorism -- Prevention
Smuggling -- Prevention
SUBJECT India -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Congresses
Subject India
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Guenther, Rita, contributor
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on India-United States Cooperation on Global Security, Technical Aspects of Civilian Nuclear Materials Security, issuing body
National Institute for Advanced Studies (Bangalore, India), issuing body
ISBN 9780309289771
0309289777