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The Fieldable Nuclear Material Identification System (FNMIS), funded by the NA-241 Office of Dismantlement and Transparency, provides information to determine the material attributes and identity of heavily shielded nuclear objects. This information will provide future treaty participants with verifiable information required by the treaty regime. The neutron interrogation technology uses a combination of information from induced fission neutron radiation and transmitted neutron imaging information to provide high confidence that the shielded item is consistent with the host's declaration. The combination of material identification information and the shape and configuration of the item are very difficult to spoof. When used at various points in the warhead dismantlement sequence, the information complimented by tags and seals can be used to track subassembly and piece part information as the disassembly occurs. The neutron transmission imaging has been developed during the last seven years and the signature analysis over the last several decades. The FNMIS is the culmination of the effort to put the technology in a usable configuration for potential treaty verification purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the emphasis on 'traditional' gender roles, the 'nuclear family,' procreation and conservative religious values, many gay and lesbian Jews feel a sense of alienation from the Jewish community and develop an ambivalent or conflicted relationship about their own Jewish identity. In addition to the difficulty of homophobia in the Jewish community, gay and lesbian Jews cannot presume full acceptance from the broader queer community, as movements that focus on sustaining a collective identity for an oppressed group sometimes overlook the concerns of sub-groups found within the larger movement. As a result, gay Jews often struggle to find ways to successfully negotiate their ethnic and sexual identities. Based upon in-depth interviews of thirty gay Jewish men in Toronto, this work offers a case-study to empirically explore the varied experiences of these intersecting identities. Recent research on other ethnic minority gays and lesbians tend to simplify this question by suggesting that the minority gay individual will simply choose to prioritize one of these identities while repressing the other. Working within theoretical frameworks that stress more fluid, dynamic and evolving approaches to identity construction (social constructionism and queer theory), this paper underscores the complexity and variability of this phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]