Terror technology to be released

BRITAIN is to release details of previously classified technology in an attempt to prevent terrorists acquiring a nuclear device or radiological “dirty bomb”.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the UK was ready to share secret techniques used to detect the trafficking of nuclear materials.

Mr Clegg disclosed that Britain had been using the cutting-edge technology at UK borders since 2001, while in recent years it had developed specialist teams to respond to the threat of an improvised suitcase bomb.

The Technical Response Force teams have the specialist techniques needed to detect and defuse a terrorist device.

“Nuclear terrorism is a very real and global threat,” Mr Clegg told speaking at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea.