The NucRad Document Repository is an information management system for the retention and dissemination of reports and information relevant to the National Technical Nuclear Forensics (NTNF) mission. This accumulation of reports and information is an evolving collection and has been assembled in cooperation with and for the purpose of the NTNF community.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office has the mission to serve as program integrator and steward for the U.S. Government to ensure a ready, robust, and enduring nuclear forensics capability, to advance capabilities to conduct forensics on nuclear and other radioactive materials, and to lead the National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Development Program (Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act, Public Law 111-140). With this goal, the National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center (NTNFC), within DHS CWMD, funded nuclear forensic research since 2008 and created the NucRad Document Repository. DHS has since transitioned management of the repository to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Nuclear Forensics.
Effective nuclear forensics is capable of attributing nuclear and other radioactive material to a particular actor or facilitator, including a state sponsor.
Nuclear forensics is a keystone of the USG commitment to identify and hold fully accountable any state or non-state actor that willfully supports, enables, or engages in hostile weapons of mass destruction activities that target or threaten the United States or our its allies and partners.