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Over the past few years significant progress has been made in addressing the threat of nuclear terror through technological improvements in detecting potentially smuggled nuclear materials, and better operational intelligence and forensics to identify and disrupt black market distribution networks of ‘loose” nuclear materials.
'We call it crush load,' said Farbstein, a spokeswoman for Washington's transit authority. 'It's going to be very uncomfortable.'
Barack Obama shortly will inherit a war an ocean away in the Middle East that potentially could spiral out of control dragging the US into it, but he immediately faces a far more deadly war that’s raging on his own back doorstep on the US-Mexican border. It's a war fast becoming America’s most serious and direct homeland security threat as described in the January HSToday cover report, Savage Struggle on the Border.
