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Biden Issues Strategy For Countering WMD Terrorism, Advancing Rad-Nuke Security

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

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Biden Issues Strategy For Countering WMD Terrorism, Advancing Rad-Nuke Security

President Joe Biden. Photo: White House

President Biden on Thursday signed a new security memorandum designed to strengthen security against weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and better secure related materials to reduce the threat of radiological and nuclear terrorism. Concerns about WMD terrorism aren’t new and have been a priority for the U.S. for over 20 years but the issues around it “are not spoken of as often or debated as thoroughly as they should be,” Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Biden’s homeland security adviser, said at an event…

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