Source: http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/03/nuclear-armed-isis-its-not-farfetched-expert-say/127039/?oref=d-river A Harvard researcher says the terror group might be closer to wreaking some sort of radioactive havoc than we think. The murder of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear facility just two days…
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Source: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/03/24/19489/report-brussels-suicide-bombers-sought-radioactive-materials?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email&goal=0_ffd1d0160d-4ea9ac4ae2-100381977&mc_cid=4ea9ac4ae2&mc_eid=9ff443c0ec The two brothers who detonated suicide bombs at an airport and subway station in Brussels this week, killing at least 31 and injuring hundreds more, had spied on a senior Belgian nuclear official in…
Source:https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-british-ships-arrive-japan-carry-plutonium-us-015323402.html TOKYO (AP) — Two British ships arrived in eastern Japan on Monday to transport a shipment of plutonium — enough to make dozens of atomic bombs — to the U.S. for storage under a…
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/missing-radioactive-material-found-dumped-south-iraq-n522991 BAGHDAD — A “highly dangerous” radioactive material that went missing in Iraq has been found dumped near a gas station in the southern town of Zubair, environment ministry spokesman Ameer Ali said on Sunday….
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/stolen-radioactive-material-hunted-isis-ravaged-iraq-officials-n520551 Iraq is searching for potentially deadly radioactive material that was stolen late last year, officials said. The material was contained in an industrial radiography device that vanished in November, the International Atomic Energy Agency…
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-radiation-idUSKCN0VQ22F Iraq is searching for “highly dangerous” radioactive material whose theft last year has raised fears among Iraqi officials that it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State. Baghdad reported the…
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Source: http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=28905 The Georgian State Security Service said on Monday that it arrested three men while trying to sell radioactive substance Cesium-137. The three men, identified as Mirian B., born in 1979; Konstantine B., born in…
Source: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/12/18850/fuel-nuclear-bomb-hands-unknown-black-marketeer-russia-us-officials-say Three identical incidents Western concerns are based on a simple trail of evidence that officials have until now kept secret: Three times since 1999, identically packaged containers of highly-enriched uranium have been seized…
Source: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/12/18850/fuel-nuclear-bomb-hands-unknown-black-marketeer-russia-us-officials-say CHISINAU, Moldova – The sample of highly-enriched uranium, of a type that could be used in a nuclear bomb, arrived here on a rainy summer day four years ago, in a blue shopping bag…