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title: "R. Scott Kemp"
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entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "R. Scott Kemp"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Jake J. Hecla","Burevestnik (9M730 Skyfall)","nuclear-security studies","direct-cycle nuclear turbojet","open-source-intelligence-as-physics"]
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MIT nuclear-security scholar and corresponding author, with [[entity-jake-j-hecla|Jake J. Hecla]], of the 2026 physics reconstruction of Russia's classified Burevestnik cruise missile (arXiv:2607.01234) — the paper's propulsion, power, and radionuclide-signature findings anchor four vault notes. Kemp's standing as a named nuclear-security researcher (rather than an anonymous OSINT account) is part of why the vault treats the model's numbers as Tier 1: a credentialed physicist's own quantitative claim about his own method, not a secondary retelling.

## References
- [[claim-burevestnik-osint-constrained-to-direct-cycle-turbojet]] · [[claim-burevestnik-cruise-reactor-thermal-power-4-3-mwth]] · [[claim-burevestnik-reactor-emits-radionuclides-in-exhaust]] · [[claim-mit-open-source-physics-contested-official-military-claims-patriot-and-burevestnik]] · [[claim-hecla-kemp-burevestnik-signature-differs-from-nyonoksa-fission-products]] · [[claim-burevestnik-hecla-kemp-isotope-signature-unconfirmed-by-detection-data]]
- Related hubs: [[entity-jake-j-hecla]]