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PORT SECURITY Few scenarios fray the nerves of counterterrorism planners more than the prospect of someone sneaking a nuclear warhead such as a dirty bomb aboard a cargo container headed for a U.S. port. For a nation that took in more than 7 million pieces of container freight last year...
All the same, "the ports and sea cargo are our most vulnerable areas right now," says Lester Boeh, a vice president of Varian Medical Systems in Palo Alto, Calif. Varian produces high-energy X-ray systems that the company says can penetrate 17 inches of steel, giving customs inspectors a...
29,000 Number of rubber bath toys thought to be streaming toward the eastern seaboard of the U.S. They fell off a container ship in the Pacific in 1992
SENTENCED. KIM DAE-HAN, 56, who started a fire on a South Korean subway that killed 198 people in February, to life in prison; in Daegu. The court said Kim, who has a history of mental illness, appeared to be unstable when he ignited a container filled with gasoline in...
The trade is hard to stop because it's impossible to tell whether so-called "dual-use" material and equipment are destined for peaceful purposes. North Korea is skilled at using front companies with ever-changing names to disguise the real end user. As a Western diplomat notes, a machine...