GUARDING BORDERS DOESNʼT SOLVE NUCLEAR TERRORISM. Matthew Bunn Senior research associate @ the JFK School of Government, ʻ06] A Mathematical Model of the Risk of Nuclear Terrorism Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 607 (Sep, 2006), pp. 103-120 Efforts to install nuclear detectors at key border crossings, to make it more difficult for terrorists to transport such items from wherever they acquire them to a safe location where they can work on them, should continue but the nuclear materials fora bomb would easily fit in a briefcase, their radiation is weak and difficult to detect, and nuclear terrorists and smugglers are likely to pick routes that are not monitored by nuclear detection equipment. Attempting to protect the United States from nuclear terrorism by detecting and stopping nuclear contraband at the border is like a football team defending at its own goal line but with that goal line stretched across thousands of kilometers, much of it unguarded wilderness, and with millions of people and vehicles legitimately crossing it every year.
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