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This course gives a basic overview of topics learned in the degree program and introduces the student to the political and technological issues associated with nuclear nonproliferation. Topical areas will be discussed in brief detail and then expanded upon in other courses. Topics will include the history of arms control, descriptions and effects of weapons of mass destruction, the fundamental technology of nuclear weapons required by the proliferator, details of various arms control treaties and efforts, proliferation pathways in the nuclear fuel cycle, international and domestic safeguards, proliferation resistance in the nuclear fuel cycle, nonproliferation strategies, treaty verification regimes, safeguards measurement techniques for material accountancy programs, containment and surveillance, and physical protection mechanisms.
Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control
This course gives a basic overview of topics learned in the degree program and introduces the student to the political and technological issues associated with nuclear nonproliferation. Topical areas will be discussed in brief detail and then expanded upon in other courses. Topics will include the history of arms control, descriptions and effects of weapons of mass destruction, the fundamental technology of nuclear weapons required by the proliferator, details of various arms control treaties and efforts, proliferation pathways in the nuclear fuel cycle, international and domestic safeguards, proliferation resistance in the nuclear fuel cycle, nonproliferation strategies, treaty verification regimes, safeguards measurement techniques for material accountancy programs, containment and surveillance, and physical protection mechanisms.