Dirty Bomb

Preparing For A `Nuclear Event' In Los Angeles

LA Daily News | Posted 12.14.2009 | Los Angeles


While the possibility of a nuclear attack in Los Angeles seems almost unthinkable, local officials are inventorying hundreds of old bomb and fallout s...

Biotech Beauty or Biotech Beast?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

Cleveland BioLabs keeps getting more and more government money. Will they ever bring their anti-radiation drug to market?

New York Dirty Bomb Security: Police Get Radiation Detectors

Reuters | Posted 08.02.2009 | New York


Thousands of additional law enforcement officers within 50 miles (80 km) of New York City will have access to radiation detectors for dirty bombs and ...

Planning for Nuclear Terrorism as Well as the Flu

Arnold Bogis | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


Arnold Bogis

Local officials should not delude themselves into thinking that existing plans for responding to dirty bombs can be simply expanded to deal with nuclear terrorism.

Pay No Attention to the Man Buying All that Cesium

Ross Hyzer | Posted 04.12.2009 | Comedy


Ross Hyzer

Millionaire white supremacist James "Jimmy Spooge" Cummings was so upset about a mulatto being elected President that he set about making a dirty bomb in his house in Maine.

Hospitals' Nuclear Waste Problems Pose A Security Threat For US

AP | SEANNA ADCOX | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green


BARNWELL, S.C. — Tubes, capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and res...