ABSTRACT
Public attention on blockchain is currently centered on the erratic fluctuation of cryptocurrency, overshadowing other potential use-cases that can have significant impact on global security, including the tracking, accounting, and securing of sensitive assets such as nuclear material and facilities.
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Funding for this research was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).
Funding
Funding for this research was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).
Funding
Funding for this research was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY).
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9. The NNSA does not necessarily endorse technologies it explores in research.
10. The prototype is based on Finland’s system of accounting and control, which uses a centrally stored database called SAFKA. Thus, the name SLAFKA emerges from a “shared ledger SAFKA.”
11. Stimson Center, MATCH Prototype: https://www.stimson.org/project/match/.
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Cindy Vestergaard
Cindy Vestergaard is the director of Stimson Center’s Blockchain in Practice Program and Nuclear Safeguards Program.
Lovely Umayam
Lovely Umayam is a writer, nuclear nonproliferation expert, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Stimson Center’s Blockchain in Practice Program.