A former executive at an airplane repair company with government contracts pleaded guilty to recklessly endangering the safety of aircraft, according to the Justice Department.
There is a dirty bomb music video. There are at least three dirty bomb movies.
But, when it comes to reality, such weapons are fairly easy to assemble and activate.
In a test to get medication to local citizens in the case of a bioterror attack, USPS personnel seemed to have scored high in an experiment started in Minneapolis and elsewhere this summer.
It has been five years since the Department of Homeland Security introduced the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), a program designed to secure the nation's chemical infrastructure by identifying high risk chemical facilities and requiring them to implement risk-based performance standards.
Municipal governments present a challenging atmosphere for security. There’s the potential for leadership turnover at each election, and there are “politics,” which may manifest in strained relationships and difficulty accomplishing goals. Procurement rules and bureaucratic red tape can slow down even simple processes in some city governments, and then there are the challenges of zero-balance budgets.
