The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security

Christopher Hobbs is Professor in Science and International Security within the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He has published widely on nuclear security issues and sought to translate his work into real-world impact. From 2014-2022 he was Programme Director for the UK's Nuclear Security Culture Programme. Dr Sarah Tzinieris is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Science and Security Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. She has published on nuclear security, non-proliferation, and British foreign policy, and previously supported the Nuclear Security Culture Programme, an academia-industry consortium funded by the British government. Sukesh K. Aghara is a Professor and Director of the Nuclear and Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He directs the Integrated Nuclear Security and Safeguards Laboratory (INSSL) and serves as a Nuclear Security Fellow with Center for Terrorism and Security Studies (CTSS).

PART I INTRODUCTION
1: Christopher Hobbs and Sarah Tzinieris: Nuclear Security
2: Friederike Friess and Moritz Kütt: Overview of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials
3: Jason T. Harris and Shraddha Rane: The Interface between Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Security
PART II EVOLU TION OF NUCLEAR SECURITY THREATS
4: John Mueller: The Risk of Nuclear Terrorism
5: Gary A. Ackerman and Bryan R. Early: State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism
6: Andrew Futter and Jason T. Harris: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Vulnerabilities
7: Matthew Bunn: Insider Threats to Nuclear Security
PART III INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY REGIME
8: Yasemin Balci: The International Legal Basis of Nuclear Security
9: Wyn Q. Bowen, Matthew Cottee, and Sarah Tzinieris: Evolution of Global Nuclear Security Governance
10: Benjamin Kienzle and Daniel Salisbury: The United Nations Security Council and the 1540 Committee
11: Trevor Findlay: The IAEA's Critical Role in Nuclear Security
12: Geoffrey Chapman and William M. Moon: US-Russian Cooperative Threat Reduction to Secure Nuclear Warheads
13: Amandeep Gill: The Four Nuclear Security Summits
PART IV SECURING NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND ASSETS
14: Martin Grigg and Johannes H. Sterba: The Fundamentals of Physical Protection
15: Igor Khripunov and James R. Holmes: Nuclear Security Culture
16: Marco Marzo and Sukesh K. Aghara: Nuclear Material Accounting and Control
17: Karl Dewey, Bob Officer, and Benjamin Whittard: Securing Nuclear Materials during Transport
18: Christopher Spirito and Sukesh K. Aghara: Cyber Security for Nuclear Facilities
19: Irman Abdul Rahman, Geoffrey Chapman and Faizal Mohamed: Radiological Source Security
20: Ross Peel and Sukesh K. Aghara: Nuclear Security for Next-Generation Reactors
21: Scott Roecker and Nickolas Roth: Addressing the Confidence Gap in the Security of Military Nuclear Materials
PART V NATIONAL APPROACHES TO NUCLEAR SECURITY
22: Zenobia Homan, Sarah Tzinieris and Sebnem Udum: Nuclear Security for Newcomer Countries
23: Gregory B. Jaczko: Risk-Informed Nuclear Security Regulation in the United States
24: Christopher Hobbs and Tom Parkhouse: The United Kingdom's Transition from Prescriptive to Outcome-Focused Nuclear Security Regulation
25: Dmitry Kovchegin: The Evolution of Nuclear Security in Russia
26: Xiaobing Guo: Nuclear Security in China
27: Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan: India's Approach to Nuclear Security
28: Jinho Chung and Na Young Lee: Nuclear Security in the Republic of Korea
PART VI COMBATTING NUCLEAR SMUGGLING
29: Egle E. Murauskaite: Illicit Networks and Nuclear Material Trafficking
30: Michael Duitsman and Margarita Kalinina-Pohl: Open Source Intelligence and Investigative Techniques for Locating Radioactive Materials
31: Craig Marianno: Radiation Detection for Border Monitoring
32: Vitaly Fedchenko: The Evolution of the Legal and Technical Aspects of Nuclear Forensics
33: David K. Smith: Case Studies of a Nuclear Forensic Examination
PART VII PERMANENT THREAT REDUCTION
34: Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress and Miles A. Pomper: International Efforts to Minimize the Use of HEU
35: Sunday A. Jonah and Hamisu A. Adamu: Conversion of a Research Reactor from HEU to LEU in Nigeria
36: Chris Englefield: Alternative Technologies for Radioactive Sealed Sources
37: Styrkaar Hustveit, Tone-Mette Sjømoen, Håvar A. Sollund, and Sindre Øvergaard: Removal of Gamma Blood Irradiators in Norway
PART VIII NUCLEAR SECURITY DURING TIMES OF CRISIS
38: Angela E. Leek and Jeffrey D. Semancik: Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response
39: Julia M. Pearce: Responding to Radiological Terrorism
40: Nickolas Roth and Daniel Salisbury: Nuclear Security in the Wake of the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
41: Christopher Hobbs and Amelie Stoetzel: Nuclear Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic