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Devices that could detect the presence of nuclear weapons could be useful in verifying compliance with various arms control agreements. Examples include monitoring a ban on nuclear weapons on surface ships, verifying compliance with the current ban on placing nuclear weapons in space, verifying limits on the number of nuclear warheads on missiles, or verifying limits on the nuclear versions of dual-capable weapons.
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For a detailed discussion of the assumptions underlying these and other values in this paper, please see our forthcoming article in Science and Global Security
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MeV is a unit of energy equal to 1.6 10−13 joules. The photons released during radioactive decay have energies ranging from a few thousandths of a MeV to several MeV
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Fetter, S., Prilutskii, O.F., Rodionov, S.N. (1989). Passive Detection of Nuclear Warheads. In: Altmann, J., Rotblat, J. (eds) Verification of Arms Reductions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46684-7_6
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