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WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department will soon require advance information on private flights to the U.S. to prevent a terrorist from smuggling a nuclear bomb into the country.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says these new regulations could eventually be expanded to include radiation scans at points in Europe and Asia for private planes flying to the U.S.

Private aircraft have not received the intense screening given to U.S.-bound cargo and commercial flights.

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