According to a Government Accounting Office investigation, materials used in the creation of nuclear weapons can easily be purchased in the U.S. through dummy organizations and shipped abroad. This comes from a report released earlier today.
Click on the title of this post to read CNN's story on the matter.
This brings in to question background checks on military related purchases. If someone has to wait to purchase handguns and some types of fertilizers, shouldn't they have to wait to purchase nuclear weapons components?
Also, who is checking our overseas shipments? Port security is always a big political issue, that is what's coming into our ports. Are we effectively monitoring what's leaving?
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