Nuclear Forensics: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course develops nuclear forensic skills needed for potential future terrorist attempted or actual events. Students learn to answer the questions where did the nuclear material come from (attribution), what routed did it follow to the interdiction site (route attribution), what route did it follow to the interdiction site (route attribution), how to safely collect nuclear materials for an interdiction site, how nuclear materials (pre-detonation and post-detonation) are analyzed, how to evaluate of pre-detonation nuclear materials' capabilities and how to interface with emergency response, law enforcement (FBI, UHP), Intelligence community, State Department and International Treaties.