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of chemical warfare agents ( CWAs ), as the threats of use by individual terrorist groups have not diminished .
Chemical terrorism events , war conflicts , or other emergen- cies connected with misuse of leakage of CWAs could cause large-scale contamination in both soil and air - and affect millions of people .
Any ship arriv- ing at a seaport could potentially be transporting a container with enclosed chem- ical agents that could easily be re- leased by remote detonation upon arrival or during the unloading of the container .
Many technologies have been applied to the rapid detection of CWAs but have not been used in the inspection process of marine containers .
This piece advocates for the ca- pabilities of direct detection of CWA simulants in marine containers ( also called sea con- tainers ), which is also applica-
TeknoScan Explosives / Narcotics / CWA Detector Model TSI-3000
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