Plan for Nuclear Bomb Detection Device Is Buy Now, Test Later

[The Straight Story]

Plan for Nuclear Bomb Detection Device Is Buy Now, Test Later


RadScout, touted by GlobalSecurity as 1st hand-held ASP monitor.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to buy new radiation-detection equipment at a cost of more than $300 million, although it has not fully tested the devices which may not work.

Once touted by the Bush administration as the answer to preventing terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into the U.S., the Advanced Spectroscopic Portal machine has yet to live up to its billing.

In January, the National Academy of Sciences questioned whether the machines could fulfill their mission. The NAS also pointed out that DHS had given Congress misleading information about the machines.

It’s unclear what homeland security officials intend to do with the ASPs, given that they previously abandoned plans to use them for primary screening at ports and borders.

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Plan_for_Nuclear_Bomb_Detection_Device_Is_Buy_Now__Test_Later_110716

So most likely we have not had security in place to detect nuclear bombs but no one has really talked about it (too many shiny objects). More in the article.

[demodonkey]

1. Kinda like electronic voting machines......

...oh yeah, they were "tested."