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Radioactive weapons. critical capabilities when it comes to monitoring global hot spots, such as syria and iran. >> whether it's fallen signals or tracing weapons, whether we're making sure that the treaties that the u.s. has signed are actually being enforced, we contribute to all of those missions. >> i imagine the iranian nuclear agreement falls into that category. >> we contribute to that missionary. >> to see where the data from the agency is collected, we came here. a place you've probably never heard of. a place you've certainly never seen. until now. >> we're approaching the mission gr...

Signed are actually being enforced, we contribute to all of those missions. >> i imagine the iranian nuclear agreement falls into that category. >> we contribute to that mercenary. >> to see where the data from the agency is collected, we came here. a place you've probably never heard of. a place you've certainly never seen. until now. >> we're approaching the mission ground station at white sands, new mexico. the very existence of this ground station and others in the u.s. was classified until 2008 and we're the first reporters allowed inside. inside this ground station, the place the nro cal...

Inside this ground station, the place the nro calls its brain. from this room, the nro watches over the agency satellites, checking their systems, receiving their data and troubleshooting any problems. >> it's a piece of hardware with electronics on it and just like anything can go wrong with your television or cell phone, that can go wrong. >> jeff crider has an important job to do. >> if we get a call in realtime where a crisis is happening, we have the capability to retest those satellites. >> how often does that happen? is that a regular thing where you get a call to say, i know you're loo...

Contractor for temporary use by the federal government. for people just joining us, we're coming up on 4:00 p.m. eastern time. this is something aggressive marketed by raytheon, the aerospace contractor, toward people who are decision-makers in the homeland security business as a way to keep your airspace safe. this has a broad reach, radar pod, several of them aloft. you can keep it at 10,000 feet over a population center, and it can detect, or so it is marketed, it can detect incoming, terrain-following cruise missiles and just as quickly send a message to a ground station to destroy them. j...

What those cables do, they not only tether it to a mooring station, but they also provide data from the cameras on board or the other sensors on board down the cable to the ground station. and that's what gives you the intelligence. so, yeah, i'm a little bit confused because we're talking about this thing flying at 16,000 feet. those cables are not that long. >> 10,000 feet. >> as it breaks free of the mooring, that can be caused by winds or malfunctioning of the cable itself or even just a broken cable because it's being pushed around in the air, this kind of stuff happens. but the data you ...