Nuclear forensics is a rapidly growing field with a widespread impact on global
nonproliferation. From the beginning, nuclear forensic capabilities have been inextricably …

Many scientists are making the case that humanity is living in a new geological epoch, the
Anthropocene, but there is no agreement yet as to when this epoch began. The start might …

OVERVIEW On Earth, natural glasses are typically produced by rapid cooling of melts, and
as in the case of minerals and rocks, natural glasses can provide key information on the …

Airbursts/impacts by a fragmented comet or asteroid have been proposed at the Younger
Dryas onset (12.80±0.15 ka) based on identification of an assemblage of impact-related …

It has been proposed that fragments of an asteroid or comet impacted Earth, deposited silica-
and iron-rich microspherules and other proxies across several continents, and triggered the …

We report the discovery in Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico of a black, carbon-rich, lacustrine
layer, containing nanodiamonds, microspherules, and other unusual materials that date to …

On the morning of July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was exploded in New Mexico on the
White Sands Proving Ground. The device was a plutonium implosion device similar to the …

Trinitite is the glass formed during the first atomic bomb test near Socorro, New Mexico, on
July 16, 1945. The protolith for the glass is arkosic sand. The majority of the glass is bottle …

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Camouflage Textiles with Technical Coloration Incorporating Illumination under Multidimensional …

This paper describes an approach to measuring extinct fission products that would allow for
the characterization of a nuclear test at any time. The isotopic composition of molybdenum in …