P.J. Crowley This is Me

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1. 1. www.spacewar.com

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   Published on: 7/18/2008   Last Visited: 7/21/2008

   The GAO's concerns are "well founded," said P.J. Crowley, a national security expert at the Center for American Progress.
   
   While the likelihood of terrorists smuggling a nuclear weapon into the United States is "extremely remote," Crowley said, "if a terrorist is going to use an unconventional weapon, it is probably going to be a radiological device."
   
   But Crowley said it isn't easy to find a balance that keeps dangerous materials secure while also allowing access to them by scientists, doctors and companies that have legitimate uses for them.
   
   "Radioactive material is important in many areas, so you have to have available sources while making sure that you're keeping track of who has it and where it's going, and how it's being used, and also how it's being disposed of."
   
   This is where the nuclear regulators play an important part by tightly controlling who gets access to potentially dangerous material.
   
   "If you have an effective system of licensing and then an effective system of monitoring the movement and use of radioactive material (in the United States and other countries), then that takes the pressure off the border," Crowley said."The border will still be important, but the border should be the last point of defense, not the only point of defense."
   
   The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is creating a Web-based system that border officers and other officials can use to check licenses.But the project is more than three years behind schedule and may not include state-issued licenses, which make up more than 80 percent of all licenses in the United States, the GAO said.
   
   "The complexity here is that this is not just a federal responsibility," Crowley said.

2. 2. Staff

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   Published on: 7/14/2008   Last Visited: 7/14/2008

   P.J. Crowley

3. 3. www.newsobserver.com

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   Published on: 4/10/2008   Last Visited: 4/10/2008

   WILMINGTON, N.C. - The Army's 82nd Airborne Division will reclaim its role as the nation's quick-reaction force in 2009, again keeping a unit on alert and ready to jump into combat anywhere in the world within 18 hours."Afghanistan and Iraq command our attention now, but something can happen anywhere in the world," said Philip Crowley, a senior fellow and director of homeland security at the Washington-based Center for American Progress.