An international data bank of nuclear explosives is needed to determine the source of nuclear materials following an explosion, argue Michael May, Jay Davis and Raymond Jeanloz.
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The authors thank Ian D. Hutcheon of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his colleagues for helpful discussions.
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May, M., Davis, J. & Jeanloz, R. Preparing for the worst. Nature 443, 907–908 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/443907a
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