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"Dual Use" Weapons Parts Problem for Border Guards

NPR's Chris Joyce reports on the difficult job of border guards who are learning to better prevent the trade of nuclear weapons materials. The guards are training to identify "dual use items," those things can be used as explosives or detonators may also have more benign applications.

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