The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration said today it had provided training to Mongolian authorities on the response to a potential terrorist strike against a site that holds nuclear or radiological materials.

Mongolian personnel from the law enforcement, regulatory and other sectors dealt with three distinct terrorist strike schemes in a four-day exercise at the Asian state's Nuclear Energy Agency headquarters in Ulaanbaatar. "The purpose of the response exercises is to gauge a site's preparedness for an armed attack, improve response plans and procedures and bring different response groups into the same room to analyze their roles in the response effort," according to an NNSA release.