An article in today's Washington Post recounts the administration's handling of nuclear threats around the world. Notably, it does not address the administration's failure to address the very real nuclear threat in America's own backyard: the the 103 nuclear reactors in 65 power plants across the country, all of which are vulnerable to attack from terrorists. The administration has failed to secure these facilities since 9/11:

• Security guards failed to protect nuclear power plants nearly half the time in mock terrorist attacks conducted from 1991 to 2001. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has subsequently allowed the nuclear power plants' own lobby to control terrorism preparedness tests, and the lobby has in turn contracted the tests to the same company that provides, in most nuclear facilities, the very security forces that must be tested.
• The NRC proposed in March of this year to weaken, not strengthen, fire safety regulations for nuclear power plants.
• The Government Accountability Office identified three major security flaws that remained unaddressed one year later. Among the flaws: the NRC assesses power plant security plans in an inadequate paper review without on-site visits, and it has no plan to conduct follow-up reviews of plants which the commission has cited for violating security requirements.

Learn more about these and other gaps in homeland security, and the link between those failures and contributions to the Bush campaign, in Homeland Unsecured, a new report from Public Citizen and Greenpeace.