A new monograph, released June 2017, addresses trends in research and development related to nuclear explosion monitoring. Los Alamos National Laboratory partnered with Lawrence Livermore, Pacific Northwest, and Sandia National Laboratories, as well as the Naval Research Laboratory, to produce the monograph, which gives the scientific community a comprehensive review of research in physics areas related to nuclear explosion monitoring: source physics (understanding signal generation), signal propagation (accounting for changes through physical media), sensors (recording the signals), and signal analysis (processing the signals). Highlighted in the document for each trend are the value and benefit to the monitoring mission, key papers that advanced the science, and promising research and development for the future.
“Nuclear explosion monitoring is critical to our national and global security,” said Dr. Monica Maceira, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee. “Researchers have spent more than a half-century studying the science behind nuclear explosions and developing tools, techniques, and systems to monitor them. This monograph provides an in-depth look at the fruits of that labor and, in doing so, shows just how advanced and complex this field has become.”
The monograph focuses on roughly the period from 1993 to 2016, during which there have been significant technical advances in making the most of the core technologies (seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic, and radionuclide) in use today for global monitoring. The primary audience for this document is the next generation of research scientists that will further improve nuclear explosion monitoring, and others interested in understanding the technical literature related to the nuclear explosion monitoring mission.
The monograph is titled “Trends in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research & Development – A Physics Perspective” and is now available to the public on-line at the DOI: 10.2172/1355758.
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