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ABSTRACT
As US-Russia tensions in space have increased over the last several years, cooperation in space nuclear research presents itself as one opportunity to both ease bilateral relations and develop the technologies needed for the next generation of crewed space missions. The authors suggest that the United States and the Russian Federation have complementary needs and strengths in nuclear space technologies, particularly as they pertain to deep space propulsion and utilization of space resources.
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24. Ponomarev-Stepnoy, Nikolay Nikolaevich. Personal communication, November 27, 2020.
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Stephen Buono
Stephen Buono is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), where he is writing a book about the emergence of outer space as a discrete realm of American foreign policy and international law during the Cold War. He earned his PhD in history from Indiana University in 2020. He has been an Aerospace History Fellow with NASA and an Arthur M. Schlesinger Fellow with the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. His recent articles appear in The Hill, Perspectives on History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, and Diplomatic History, where he served as assistant editor.
Jake Hecla
Jake Hecla is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He earned an undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering at MIT, where he worked on techniques for zero-knowledge warhead verification. Today, his research includes 3D coded aperture gamma-ray imaging and antineutrino detection for reactor monitoring. In pursuit of his interest in nuclear policy, he has worked with Berkeley’s Nuclear Policy Working Group (NPWG) to analyze emerging technologies and understand their impact on strategic stability. In his spare time, he works with Clean Futures Fund, a nonprofit that provides support to communities near the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Vladimir Kobezskii
Vladimir Kobezskii is an analyst in the Digital Product Office of the Engineering Division of ROSATOM State Corporation. He holds two MS degrees from Nizhniy Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Russia. His research interests lie in the field of system analysis and life cycle management systems for complex engineering facilities.
Katie Mummah
Katie Mummah is PhD student in nuclear engineering and engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research includes developing computational methods for nuclear fuel cycle simulators to aid in nuclear safeguards implementation, and she is a DOE/NNSA Nuclear Nonproliferation & International Safeguards Graduate Fellow.
Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin
Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He has a doctorate in applied physics from Princeton University and a masters in nuclear engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing. Julien’s work is aimed at developing scientific methods and software to verify the production of weapon-usable material in countries with nuclear programs.