Additional funds for the Departments of Defense and Energy would help develop new technologies to better detect such weapons and material. Mr. President. the border controls throughout the former Soviet Union are notoriously weak. This amendment also seeks to assist the Customs officials of these countries in improving their ability to detect and interdict nuclear weapons or material. The third area this amendment addresses is the need to continue the important work of the NunnLugar programs that over the past 4 years have quietly worked to enhance the security of all Americans by dismantling nuclear weapons and protecting material at its source in the former Soviet Union.
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