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Article: New Jersey gets United States' first seaport radiation detectors
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- AP Worldstream
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- March 22, 2004
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WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-22-2004
Dateline: JERSEY CITY, New Jersey
Jersey City has become the United States' first seaport to use new radiation detectors that scan all incoming cargo for nuclear or radiological weapons, federal officials said Monday.
Similar devices are planned for 90 percent of the country's seaports by the end of summer, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner.
"The best way to prevent a terrorist attack is by preventing terrorists or terrorist weapons from entering our country in the first instance," Bonner said at the Global Marine Terminal in Jersey City.
Several million cargo containers _ about 95 percent of ...
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