Introduction to Special Edition on Reducing the Threat from Radioactive Materials

At the July 2006 Annual Meeting of the Nonproliferation and Arms Control Division, Ruth Duggan volunteered to lead a new standing committee on international nuclear and radiological security. The new committee was created by consensus of the assembled division membership, and with the encouragement of the INMM President Nancy Jo Nicholas. In addition to other activities that the standing committee has begun, ruth conceived of and managed the production of this special edition of the Journal.