Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the greatest threat facing North America is international terrorists smuggling a nuclear weapon in a container through a busy port.
Speaking at an Ottawa conference of transportation security experts, MacKay raised the spectre of radicals detonating a crude radioactive device or a conventional nuclear bomb after smuggling it in one of the millions of cargo containers arriving annually on foreign ships.
He said the greatest threat to North America right now was on the water. He said with the number of movements of containers coming into US, the country had to be completely and extremely vigilant and rigorous in terms of security.
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