Using meta-networks to identify key intervention points in nuclear WMD development

The ability to identify key intervention points in the nuclear WMD development process is vital for the development of effective intervention strategies against nuclear proliferation efforts. This paper describes research in progress to investigate nuclear weapons development as a meta-network of pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peiris, W, Armstrong, Helen, Venable, John
Other Authors: John Cole
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE Computer Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38176
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Summary:The ability to identify key intervention points in the nuclear WMD development process is vital for the development of effective intervention strategies against nuclear proliferation efforts. This paper describes research in progress to investigate nuclear weapons development as a meta-network of people, knowledge, resources, locations and tasks, and to design a software tool which will be capable of identifying the key intervention points of the process based upon the available information.