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08/07/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

How hospital equipment allows terrorists to easily make dirty bombs that could irradiate entire cities

When ISIS took control of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, it apparently had the makings of a devastating dirty bomb at its fingertips. Cobalt-60 is a common element in medical radiotherapy equipment used in cancer treatment. For about three years after ISIS overran the city, wary U.S. intelligence agencies were aware that two […]

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