Posts Tagged ‘radiological bomb’

US Cities, Fed. Unprepared For Recovery From Dirty Bomb

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

US cities would be so overwhelmed by a dirty bomb or nuclear bomb attack that they would invariably rely upon the federal government for recovery, but agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have not yet completed their planning for delivering such assistance, congressional investigators warned Monday.

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New Drug Protects From Nuclear or Dirty Bomb Radiation

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

A drug that can protect people exposed to normally lethal doses of radiation from a nuclear or a “dirty” bomb has been developed, reports say.

In tests involving 650 monkeys exposed to radiation equivalent to that recorded during the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in 1986, 70 per cent died while the rest suffered serious maladies.

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New York Police Expand Dirty Bomb Security

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Thousands of additional law enforcement officers within 50 miles of New York City will have access to radiation detectors for dirty bombs and nuclear devices, New York police said on Wednesday.

The detectors, including cell phone-sized devices that officers wear on their belts, could help uncover a dirty bomb that might be assembled outside New York and smuggled in, police said at a security conference.

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  • Columbia Scientists Prepare for a Threat: A Dirty Bomb in New York (nytimes.com)
  • Jane Harman and Susan Collins: Al Qaeda Still Wants a Dirty Bomb (online.wsj.com)
  • Uranium smuggling ring broken up in Moldova police sting (guardian.co.uk)

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