Light trick foils fake nuclear warheads

• Autores: Emily Benson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3083, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There's a new way to identify fake nuclear warheads, without revealing what's inside. The technique offers a way out of a tricky catch-22: to comply with nuclear arms reduction treaties, inspectors need to scrutinize warheads to verify that real missiles, not decoys, are being disarmed. R. Scott Kemp at MIT and his colleagues used computer simulations to show that shining a particular beam of light through a warhead can scrutinize its innards