Homeland insecurity: Preparations for a nuclear attack.

According to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, his department's goal is to keep nuclear weapons from entering the USA, while focusing on how to respond in case of a nuclear attack.

Weapons of mass destruction, small boats packed with explosives and Islamic radicalization are the greatest terrorist threats facing the country, top U.S. security officials said Monday on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The officials told Congress the country is much better prepared to face terror threats than it was then, but that terrorists' desire to attack the United States remains strong — an assertion that has yet to be fully accepted by the American public, according to a new poll.

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