area of nuclear safety and security is the possibility that terrorist organizations may attack facilities possessing radioactive material in order to cause...

opposing side is left unable to continue war. The preferred methodology is to attack the opponent's strategic nuclear weapon facilities (missile silos, submarine...

destruction Nuclear blackmail Nuclear espionage Nuclear power phase-out Nuclear warfare Pelindaba Superphénix Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack War on...

launch facility (LF), or nuclear silo, is a vertical cylindrical structure constructed underground, for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic...

terrorism Nuclear winter Sino-Soviet border conflict Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack World War III Fromm, M.; Stocks, B.; Servranckx, R.; et al...

"Nuclear Power". Globalsecurity.org: Nuclear Power Plants: Vulnerability to Terrorist Attack p. 3. Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors, World Nuclear Association...

nuclear bunker buster, also known as an earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster. The non-nuclear component...

different types of nuclear armaments. The first, a limited nuclear war (sometimes attack or exchange), refers to the controlled use of nuclear weapons, whereby...

Mark Foreman. The vulnerability of nuclear plants to deliberate attack is of concern in the area of nuclear safety and security. Nuclear power plants, civilian...

of vulnerable information systems and processes. Notable attacks in this category in the recent past have targeted critical infrastructure facilities...

control attack Programmable logic controller Regin (malware) Stars virus Tailored Access Operations Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack Zero Days...

uninhabitable due to the effects of nuclear warfare, potentially causing the collapse of civilization, the extinction of humanity, and/or the termination of most biological...

According to US officials speaking anonymously, Israel assured the Biden administration it would refrain from targeting Iran's nuclear and oil facilities, focusing...

remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the...

Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons...

nuclear issues. In 1989, they agreed not to attack each other's nuclear facilities. Since then they have been regularly exchanging lists of nuclear facilities...

also built to protect aircraft in a nuclear strike; however, the effect of such an attack on airfield taxiways, runways, support facilities and personnel...

decide to launch a nuclear attack, the service and technical personnel who would implement the attack, and the facilities from which the attack would originate...

campaign of sabotage by means of cyber disruption, directed at Iranian nuclear facilities likely by the United States and Israel. As reported, it is one of the...

producer of nuclear energy; almost half the electricity produced in the country is nuclear energy. Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to direct attack, as...

first target of a possible nuclear attack by Iran. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, who is mentioned as one of the supporters of Israel's...

system vulnerabilities and use them for investigative purposes. The Vulnerability Action Process (VEP), a system-vulnerability policy, was created to allow...

used to attack oil processing facilities at Abqaiq (Arabic: بقيق, romanized: Buqaiq) and Khurais (خريص) in eastern Saudi Arabia. The facilities were operated...

a class of small nuclear fission reactor, designed to be built in a factory, shipped to operational sites for installation and then used to power buildings...

A nuclear electromagnetic pulse (nuclear EMP or NEMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear explosion. The resulting rapidly varying...

nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament...

Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not...

Feiveson has written that nuclear facilities should be made extremely safe from attacks that could release massive quantities of radioactivity into the community...

commonly refers to the radioactive dust and ash created when a nuclear weapon explodes. The amount and spread of fallout is a product of the size of the weapon...

are nuclear-powered. Ballistic missile submarines have a single strategic mission of carrying nuclear submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Attack submarines...