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===Security=== ORNL provides resources to the [[United States Department of Homeland Security]] and other defense programs. The Global Security and Nonproliferation (GS&N) program develops and implements policies, both US based and international, to prevent the [[Nuclear proliferation|proliferation of nuclear material]].<ref name="GSN">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ornl.gov/adm/directorates/gsd/factsheets/GS&N%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf |title=Global Security & Nonproliferation Programs Mission Factsheet |publisher=Oak Ridge National Laboratory |access-date=January 23, 2013 |archive-date=October 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002131323/http://www.ornl.gov/adm/directorates/gsd/factsheets/GS%26N%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The program has developed safeguards for nuclear arsenals, guidelines for dismantling arsenals, plans of action should nuclear material fall into unauthorised hands, detection methods for stolen or missing nuclear material, and trade of nuclear material between the US and Russia.<ref name=GSN/> The GS&N's work overlaps with that of the Homeland Security Programs Office, providing detection of nuclear material and nonproliferation guidelines. Other areas concerning the Department Homeland Security include nuclear and radiological forensics, [[Chemical weapon|chemical]] and [[biological agent]] detection using [[mass spectrometry]], and simulations of potential national hazards.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ornl.gov/adm/directorates/gsd/dhs_compentencies.shtml |title=Department of Homeland Security Programs β Key Competencies |publisher=Oak Ridge National Laboratory |access-date=January 23, 2013 |archive-date=January 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101220003/http://www.ornl.gov/adm/directorates/gsd/dhs_compentencies.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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