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Security and emergency response usually fail due to a failure to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, rather than a failure to envision threats. Unfortunately, however, threats usually receive more attention than vulnerabilities. Design Basis Threat and layered security exacerbate the problem. There are a number of aspects of nuclear security that require considerably more attention to the vulnerabilities.
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The views expressed here are those of the author and should not necessarily be ascribed to Argonne National Laboratory or the United States Department of Energy. Jon Warner provided important ideas and expertise.
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Johnston, R.G. (2015). Focusing on the Threats to the Detriment of the Vulnerabilities: A Vulnerability Assessor’s Perspective. In: Apikyan, S., Diamond, D. (eds) Nuclear Terrorism and National Preparedness. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9891-4_14
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