Adequate Control of Weapon-Usable Fissile Materials

Brian G. Chow

Expert InsightsPublished 1994

The prepared statement first describes the difficulties in the current ways of controlling fissile materials that can be used to make nuclear bombs. It then discusses how weapon-usable materials, being released from dismantled nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russia and from civilian nuclear power reactors worldwide, should be controlled and managed.

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  • Copyright: RAND Corporation
  • Availability: Web-Only
  • Year: 1994
  • Pages: 12
  • Document Number: CT-118

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Chow, Brian G., Adequate Control of Weapon-Usable Fissile Materials. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1994. https://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT118.html.
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