Lost radioactive material may be used to make 'dirty bomb'

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators have documented 1,300 cases of lost, stolen or abandoned radioactive material inside the United States over the past five years and have concluded there is a significant risk that terrorists could cobble enough together for a dirty bomb.

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