Deterring a Dirty Bomb

In an article, Sharon Begley of newsweek discussed the importance of protecting nuclear materials so that terrorist groups would not be able to get these nuclear materials to create nuclear weapons. She also shared with us the many ways to track these nuclear materials.

Many countries are turning to nuclear energy as a source of energy because it is known as a form of green of energy. Thus, these countries are thinking of many ways to guard their nuclear waste from theft especially from the terrorist organizations. However, many of the countries have never thought about nuclear forensics and how it would benefit them.

I agree with Sharon Begley that we should start focusing on nuclear forensics now. Nuclear forensics is something that we have not really been doing much research about. With further and more in-depth research on nuclear forensic I believe we would be to prevent nuclear attacks be terrorists on our country.

It is definitely important to research more on nuclear forensics to protect our countries however, perhaps we should still place our main focus on increasing the security at nuclear facilities so that terrorist would not even be able to steal the nuclear materials for their nuclear weapons. If we are able to secure the nuclear materials, we may not even require nuclear forensics to protect ourselves against nuclear attacks.