Nuclear Emergency Search Team

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The Nuclear Emergency Services Team, often times abbreviated as NEST is an organization operating under the United States' Department Of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Their task is "to be prepared to respond immediately to any type of radiological accident or incident anywhere in the world," primarily terrorist nuclear threats.

History
Nest was formed in part from the fear that a Nuclear Device would be smuggled into the United States and detonated. However, NEST teams were largely made in response to a 1974 incident in Boston, Massachusetts. An extortionist communicated to the FBI a demanded of 200,000 Dollars with the threat that a nuclear weapon had been placed in Boston. Erring on the side of caution, a team of experts along with Scientists from the U.S Atomic Energy Commission scrambled to Boston. However, after a series of bungles including having their equipment transported to a different airport and renting a fleet of vans only to find they lacked the equipment to mount detectors, the team found no such device (it had turned out to be a hoax). Following this fiasco, President Gerald R. Ford formed NEST to create a more effective prevention and response team to any nuclear-related incident. By the Atomic Energy Act, NEST provides support to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in any investigation involving "illegal use of nuclear materials, including terrorist threats involving the use of special nuclear materials."

Capabilities
NEST teams are capable of deploying as many as 600 people to the scene of a radiological incident, though normally fewer than 45 are deployed. They command their own small air force, comprising four helicopters and three planes all equipped with nuclear detection gear. When an airborne response is called for, NEST teams get higher control priority from the Federal Aviation Administration. This is designated with the callsign 'FLYNET'.

In Game
In Call of Duty 4, NEST Teams are on stand-by following rumors of a nuclear device in the capital city of the small Middle Eastern country. After SEAL Team Six discovers the device, a Russian Warhead provided by Imran Zakhaev and the Ultranationalists. They were attempting to disarm it when the device detonated. Because of this, it can be reasonably assumed that the NEST teams did not survive the ensuing explosion.