STRATEGIC APPROACH TO COUNTER NUCLEAR SMUGGLING
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LAYERED DEFENSE NSDD creates opportunities to detect smuggling incidents by providing law enforcement and border security officials with a layered defense around the globe. One layer of defense against R/N material smuggling includes border crossing points. NSDD deploys radiation detection systems to these locations, integrating them into existing security operations. This allows automated, round-the-clock screening of persons, vehicles, and cargo. Because traditional security measures (canines, metal detectors, x-ray machines, etc.) are unable to detect radiation, NSDD’s radiation detection technologies are a necessary and effective way of alerting frontline officers to potential smuggling incidents. In consideration of risks that international border security needs to address, another layer of defense includes routine and information-driven operations outside of BCPs. These may take place along blue borders (coastlines), green borders (areas between official crossing points), and administrative borders where radiation portal monitors are impractical. NSDD supports internal security operations by providing different tool sets
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which include mobile, man-portable, and hand-held radiation detection technologies as well as with other tools useful to law-enforcement agencies. NSDD provides partners with capabilities that reinforce an integrated approach to combatting nuclear smuggling. These include integrating information received from operations and technology, which enables national and regional command centers to provide remote oversight to front-line officers and support alarm adjudication. NSDD also provides technical guidance in the area of nuclear forensics science specifically focused on skills and processes to investigate incidents of nuclear smuggling in support of legal prosecution.
