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In six pages this paper argues that shipping containers are the greatest post-September 11 maritime terrorism threat. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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are being crossed by some 40,000 international ships (Farrell, 2007). Out of the worlds more than 2,800 ports, 361 of them are in the United States (Nincic, 2005).
In terms of weight, more than 95 percent of American trade is transported by ship carried upon non-American vessels (Nincic, 2005). According to reports released by the United States
Maritime Administration, U.S. ports receive in excess of seven million shipping containers annually (Farrell, 2007). Prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, only two percent
of all inbound U.S. shipping containers received a thorough inspection (Nicolaidis, 2005). Also, prior to 911, the ways in which shipping containers were packed were treated to a "de
facto mutual recognition" of global shipping regulations that can vary greatly from one country to another (Nicolaidis, 2005, p. 263). However, after September 11, the United States has begun
taking foreign packing of shipping containers very seriously, and has refused to accept automatically its adequacy without question (Nicolaidis, 2005). A detailed report issued by the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) the year after 911 revealed that the worst possible terrorist onslaught would be of the maritime variety through the smuggling of nuclear weapons in outwardly harmless looking shipping containers
(Smith, 2002). This report strongly suggests that delivering such nuclear weapons through non-missile means by a covert source or sources "is the most likely means through which the United
States is likely to suffer a nuclear, chemical, or biological attack" (Smith, 2002, p. 33). This CIA report indicates that maritime terrorism holds substantial appeal that includes masking the
weapon source to elude retribution, to guarantee that the weapon is deployed effectively at the desired location or target, and by this means possessed "the ability to evade missile or
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