Nuclear security

A big one for Big Brother

Between Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia, it’s like a “reverse Bermuda Triangle,” Williams said, where instead of mysteriously vanishing, radiological materials mysteriously appear.
Williams and Congedo don’t believe they’re the only people working on parsing intelligence about nuclear smuggling. The task is important enough to warrant duplication, they say.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, which oversees countries’ compliance with nuclear nonproliferation regimes, has a similar database, although it’s not available to the public. The US-based nonprofit Nuclear Threat Initiative has one, too. It’s public and has three years of data.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a government weapons lab in New Mexico, have shown there is a world of information on the Internet that could enhance nuclear nonproliferation efforts. A creative algorithm can go a long way to turn seemingly mundane public data into actionable intelligence.