India Deploys Rapid Response Team To Nuclear Facilities

December 1, 2009 by national  
Filed under World Report



It’s difficult to say if the threat reported here a couple of weeks ago have increased however; news sources in India today say that the government has tightened security at its nuclear facilities, assigning a rapid response military team to complement civil protection measures after intelligence warnings the sites were a prime target for militants.

There are 22 nuclear reactors across the country, some of them close to crowded cities such as Mumbai, and guarding them is seen as a security challenge for a country of 1.1 billion people.

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