A team of academic scientists from Texas Tech University has been working with the government of Iraq under the auspices of the State Department to analyze the nuclear contamination in former Iraqi nuclear facilities, as well as to identify the health impacts in the surrounding communities that resulted from the looting of these sites. They are assisting the government of Iraq to establish laws, regulations and procedures needed to dismantle former nuclear facilities. Iraqi scientists visited Texas Tech for training and the Texas Tech team organized an international network to assist Iraqi scientists in the monitoring and decontamination work.