International. After two security breaches earlier this summer, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, has begun installing barbed wire in fences around the airport's perimeter.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the coiled razor wire is added to the three existing rows of barbed wire in about 20 miles of perimeter security fencing surrounding the airport.
The cable is installed at a rate of about 450 feet per day, at an approximate cost of $5 million in total, which will be paid for with funds from the airport.
Additional measures are still being considered, such as covering the mesh fence with fabric to make it more difficult to scale, or including a V-shaped structure in the concertina wire.
The intervention is in response to several security breaches over the summer, including a man who climbed a fence and ran into an active taxiway and an intruder walking on an access road inside the perimeter fence early in the morning.
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