http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/08/dirty-bombs-despite-their-name-not-sexy-enough/ Democracy. Unwashed. Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/08/dirty-bombs-despite-their-name-not-sexy-enough/#comment-165 Lex Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:58:46 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=400#comment-165 This is a real thing. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dirtybomb/chrono.html" rel="nofollow">We had 19 tubes of cesium go missing from the area's biggest hospital in 1998; ultimately, the case was classified as theft.</a> It was never solved, and the material was never found. Authorities were pretty sure that whoever took it was familiar with radioactive materials, which suggests an organized effort that might be part of a larger pattern. This is a real thing. We had 19 tubes of cesium go missing from the area’s biggest hospital in 1998; ultimately, the case was classified as theft. It was never solved, and the material was never found. Authorities were pretty sure that whoever took it was familiar with radioactive materials, which suggests an organized effort that might be part of a larger pattern.

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