Publications (security, technology, & policy)

C.L. Tracy, “Technological surprise and normalization through use: The tactical and discursive effects of new precision strike weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War,” Texas National Security Review 9, 2 (2026)

C.L. Tracy, “Sociotechnical risks posed by the geologic disposal of weapons plutonium,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 81, 1 (2025)

C.L. Tracy, “Weapons design, engineering ethics, and the duty to inform: A case study on U.S. hypersonic missile development,” Technology and Society 43, 4 (2024)

D. Wright, C.L. Tracy, “Hypersonic cruise missiles,” Science & Global Security 32, 1-3 (2024)

D. Wright, C.L. Tracy, “Hypersonic weapons: Vulnerability to missile defenses and comparison to MaRVs,” Science & Global Security 31, 3 (2023)

S. Park, C.L. Tracy, R.C. Ewing, “Reimagining US rare earth production: Domestic failures and the decline of US rare earth production dominance — lessons learned and recommendations,” Resources Policy 85, A (2023)

C.L. Tracy, D. Wright, “‘Computational fluid dynamics analysis of the infrared emission from a generic hypersonic glide vehicle’—A response,” Science & Global Security 31, 1-2 (2023)

C.L. Tracy, R.C. Ewing, “Mining for the bomb: The vulnerability of buried plutonium to clandestine recovery,” Science & Global Security 30, 3 (2022)

C.L. Tracy, “Disposal, destruction, and disarmament: Comparative analysis of US chemical weapon and weapons plutonium stockpile reductions,” Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 17, 1 (2022)

C.L. Tracy, S. Park, M. Plevaka, E. Bogdanova, D. Popovich, “Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 77, 3 (2021)

C.L. Tracy, D. Wright, “Modeling the performance of hypersonic boost-glide missiles,” Science & Global Security 28, 3 (2020)

S. Park, A. Puccioni, C.L. Tracy, E. Serbin, R.C. Ewing, “Geologic analysis of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s uranium resources and mines,” Science & Global Security 28, 2 (2020)

N. Ulibarri, C.L. Tracy, R.J. McCarty, “Cleanup and complexity: nuclear and industrial contamination at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, California,” Environmental Management 65, 2 (2020)

C.L. Tracy, M.K. Dustin, R.C. Ewing, “Reassess New Mexico’s nuclear-waste repository,” Nature 529, 7585 (2016)