Stanford scholar says insider threats pose security risks at nuclear facilities

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http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/nuclear-security-risks-042414.html

Stanford Report, April 24, 2014
When it comes to security at nuclear facilities, danger likely lurks from within, Stanford scholar says

The greatest dangers to nuclear facilities are sabotage and theft from insiders, according to political scientist Scott Sagan. Analysis of past incidents can help boost safeguards at these sites.

By Clifton B. Parker

Insider threats are the most serious challenge confronting nuclear facilities in today's world, a Stanford political scientist says.

In every case of theft of nuclear materials where the circumstances of the theft are known, the perpetrators were either insiders or had help from insiders, according to Scott Sagan and his co-author, Matthew Bunn of Harvard University, in a research paper published this month by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"Given that the other cases involve bulk material stolen covertly without anyone being aware the material was missing, there is every reason to believe that they were perpetrated by insiders as well," they wrote...

The paper can be found here (*.pdf file):

http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/24609/insiderThreats.pdf

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1. Oh dear!

That is to say, holy shit!