NATO and the United Nations team up in Jordan for a field exercise against radiological threats

NATO and the United Nations team up in Jordan for a field exercise against radiological threats. Jordan is now better equipped to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats, thanks to a recent project jointly implemented by NATO and the United Nations (UN). The three-year project culminated in a demonstration near Amman, Jordan’s capital, in which Jordanian authorities responded to a simulated radiological attack. Thanks to the efforts of the NATO-UN team, which focused on training Jordanian authorities in crisis management and disaster response, the exercise participants swiftly and effectively responded to the national disaster. This is the first time NATO has teamed up with the UN to enhance the security capabilities of a NATO partner country. The NATO Defence and Related Security Capacity Building (DCB) Initiative is one of several partnership programmes developed by NATO to help partner countries improve their defence and related security capacities. Support provided through this initiative is tailored to the needs of the recipient countries. Assistance packages range from helping countries to counter terrorism, to improve their information protection, cyber defence, civil preparedness, crisis management capabilities and much more. Footage includes shots of a disaster response exercise, as well as interviews with NATO and UN officials. “We’re here to conclude a three-year NATO-UN joint project, which aims to enhance Jordan’s capacity to deal with CBRN terrorism. This is the first such joint project between NATO and the United Nations, aiming to enhance partners’ capacity on a specific subject. Over the last three years, we have been working jointly with the Jordanian authorities to identify gaps, to increase the awareness, to provide training. And in this final stage, we are trying to validate all those activities through a national--level CBRN exercise.”