Greater oversight of precursor chemicals at retail level needed to reduce threat from IEDs

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) Policymakers' efforts to reduce threats from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) should include greater oversight of precursor chemicals sold at the retail level -- especially over the Internet -- that terrorists, violent extremists, or criminals use to make homemade explosives, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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