Abstract
ABSTRACT In the year 2005, over 100 million shipping containers moved through the maritime transport system and about 11 million of them were offloaded at United States seaports (U.S. CPB 2006). Therefore, the focus of this paper is about the security vulnerabilities that maritime shipping containers and their associated supply chain management system flaws pose to the United States with respect to weapons of mass destruction. This article describes what is currently being done as part of United States initiatives and the application of technology to prevent shipping containers from being used as vehicles for WMD. The whole world would reverberate from consequences never before witnessed in modern times, if a nuclear device were to arrive at one of the United States, busiest ports from overseas in a shipping container and then detonate. A scenario has been provided in this paper describing that very event and its frightening consequences.
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