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SUMMARY:Nuclear Threat Reduction - reverse side of the coin to the Nuclear
  Deterrent  - Neil Gasper\, AWE
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CONTACT:Jo Boyle
DESCRIPTION:THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN RE-ARRANGED (from 1 March)\n\nThe UK pol
 icy for nuclear weapons is for Continuous at Sea Deterrent and has been in
  service for 50 years. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed in 
 1996 means that Trident\, the current in service system has to be designed
 \, built\, serviced and decommissioned without nuclear testing. The scienc
 e and technology for this is understandably broad and very interesting. \n
 In parallel\, at AWE there is a Nuclear Threat Reduction programme which f
 ocuses on the detection\, characterisation and attribution of material out
 side of regulatory control. It also covers international treaties such as 
 the CTBT\, non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and any future arms control trea
 ties. This talk will look at the underlying science of Nuclear Threat Redu
 ction and how its science and technology is heavily dependent on the exper
 tise of the UK’s nuclear deterrent. \n
LOCATION:Department of Engineering - LR3
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