U.S. Intelligence Is Not Capable Of Detecting Foreign Nuke Threats

Pentagon: U.S. Not Capable of Detecting Foreign Nuke Threats -- Washington Free Beacon

Report warns ‘nation is not yet organized or fully equipped’ to detect nukes

American intelligence and security agencies are not currently capable of detecting when foreign nations are building nuclear weapons or ramping up their existing programs, according to a newly released Pentagon report that faults a range of U.S. agencies.

“The nation is not yet organized or fully equipped” to detect clandestine nuclear activities across the globe, and in most cases “current solutions are either inadequate, or more often, do not exist,” according to the report, which was compiled over three years by the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board.

More nations than ever are pursuing nuclear arms. However, the United States does not have the mechanisms to detect and track these programs, according to the report.

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Update #1: Study says U.S. lacks resources to detect secret nuclear development -- UPI
Update #2: Pentagon Study Finds Agencies Ill Equipped to Detect Foreign Nuclear Efforts -- New York Times

My Comment: The inability of U.S. intelligence in not knowing what foreign governments are doing when it comes to their nuclear programs was pointedly made crystal clear to all of us when no weapons of mass destruction were discovered kin Iraq after the U.S. invasion. So the next question then begs itself .... why we are spending tens of billions of dollars on intelligence when all we get are wrong answers?

The study, a 100-page report by the Defense Science Board, can be read here.