Кажется, когда-то где-то обсуждалась возможность идентификации производителя ЯБЧ.
И вот опять - в Штатах как минимум с 2013 по 2016 обсуждают, и не просто на словах, а целые исследовательские программы запускают по возможности определения в случае гипотетического взрыва буквально на улицах, скажем, Нью-Йорка - что именно рвануло. И каковы могут быть последствия такого достаточно специфического и непривычного взрыва.
Many experts believe that a nuclear attack on U.S. soil is more likely than ever; a bomb set off in a city street is seen as the most likely scenario. The conceivable need to unmask a perpetrator, and mount an effective response, is propelling the emerging area of postdetonation forensics. Scientists are devising new sensors, manufacturing artificial fallout to hone analytical techniques, and studying how the glass formed in the furnace of an atomic blast would vary depending on the nature of the bomb and the city where it detonated. Discreet Oculus, a sensor array that would collect data during a nuclear attack on a U.S. city, was tested in the first exercise of its kind last summer.
// science.sciencemag.org
The scenario has changed, says Thomas Cartledge, a nuclear engineer with the U.S.Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Now, if you see a mushroom cloud goof in New York City, you wont know who did it, or what kind of weapon they used. Possibilities include a warhead diverted from the U.S. arsenal or smuggled into the country by terrorist, or a bomb delivered by an enemy state such as North Korea, which has threatened to nuke the White House.