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Book "Security of Russia's Nuclear Weapons. Legislative Basis. Scientific and Engineering Approaches. Logistics. Life Cycle"

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The nuclear weapons security system is coeval with nuclear weapons, and it will exist as long as there are nuclear weapons. This system has been constantly developed and improved being subject to different factors, responding to nuclear stockpile quantity and structure changes, to upgrading and development of new delivery means, and to the operational readiness requirements. The major evidence of Russia's nuclear weapons security system's effectiveness is that during its entire history there have been no nuclear/radiation accidents involving nuclear weapons at any stage of its life cycle, except for specific cases caused by emergency submarine submerges. The extreme efficiency of the developed security system is evident given the fact that for decades it has been embracing tens of thousands of nuclear warheads and ammunition articles, and that the efforts related to nuclear weapons and their components has been involving many tens of thousands of people.

The book consists of the following sections:

Preface
Section I. Legal and Normative Fundamentals Ensuring Nuclear Weapons Security
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Legislation Components Related to Nuclear Weapons and Security;
- Chapter 2. Standards for Nuclear and Radiological Explosion-Proofness;
- Chapter 3. Evolution of Radiation Safety Standards.
Section II. Scientific and Engineering Approaches to Nuclear Warheads' and Ammunition's Security, and Prevention, and Mitigation of Consequences, of Nuclear and Radiation Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons
- Introduction
- Chapter 4. Analysis of Experimental Studies of Nuclear Explosion-Proofness;
- Chapter 5. Basic Approaches to Risk Reduction and Mitigation of Consequences of Nuclear and Radiation Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons;
- Chapter 6. Aftermath of Accidents Involving Nuclear Munitions;
- Chapter 7. Simulation of Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons.
Section III. Some Features of Nuclear Weapons Security Maintenance at Different Life Cycle Stages
- Introduction
- Chapter 8. Security Maintenance at Nuclear Weapons Design, Production and Dismantling;
- Chapter 9. Approaches to Nuclear Weapons' Operational Security Maintenance;
- Chapter 10. Approaches to Nuclear Weapons Security Maintenance at Storage and Transportation;
- Chapter 11. Human Factor in Ensuring Nuclear Weapons Security.
Conclusion
Definitions
Appendixes

The book "Security of Russia's Nuclear Weapons. Legislative Basis. Scientific and Engineering Approaches. Logistics. Life Cycle" has been prepared by an editorial board consisting of specialists from the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy headed by Member of Academy V.N.Mikhailov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (1992-1998).

Editorial board:
I.A.Andryushin	V.A.Afanasiev	V.V.Bogdan	V.A.Bogdanov
R.I.Ilkaev	V.N.Mikhailov	L.D.Ryabev	A.K.Chernyshev
Preparation of individual sections of the book:
I.A.Andryushin	V.A.Afanasiev	A.A.Brish	L.F.Belovodsky
N.A.Bilyk	V.Yu.Verezhansky	D.V.Gorbenko	S.S.Zhikharev
A.V.Zubanov	V.A.Zagorodnev	S.I.Karpenko	N.I.Komov
Ye.A.Kushnir	E.A.Leonov	A.L.Mikhailov	V.P.Neznamov
V.T.Obolochkov	A.A.Poklonsky	G.A.Smirnov	V.N.Stefanov
R.M.Tagirov	A.K.Chernyshev

The book was published by Begell-House, Inc., New York in 1998 under the financial support of Minatom of Russia.