[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Beyond that, these inspections are taking place in the Bahamas. Those same containers are subject to inspection once they hit our ports. It's just another layer of security, it seems to me.

I am PRO-DPW. But here is the key problem with this port deal:

b>"The fact that foreign workers would have access to how the United States screens various containers for nuclear material and how this technology scrutinizes the containers — all those things allow someone with a nefarious intention to thwart the screening."

It is not a matter of manipulating the equipment or getting something through the Bahamas. It is a matter of deliberately sending "things" through the equipment to test what kind of shieldings will defeat it. (What fails can just "disappear".) That information can then be sold or used to defeat the same equipment at any port. My 81-year-old MOM understood the possibilities in a minute when I explained it and she has no nuclear knowledge (I do.)

[Beckwith]

And for $150,000 I can buy and equip a fat cruiser like a Gulfstar 50 and invisibly sail across the Atlantic and carry a nuke right up the Potomac.



So why use a shipping system, the complexity of which, just adds too many variables and too many opportunities for a screwup?