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08/13/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Radioactive material reported stolen in Mexico; are terrorists creating a dirty bomb?

An unknown amount of radioactive material has been reported stolen in Northern Mexico, prompting a massive search that spans across the Mexican states of Leon, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas and Coahuila, according to a recent announcement from the head of national emergency services. Mexico’s National Coordinator of Civil Protection, Luis Felipe Puente, encouraged anyone […]

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 […]

07/25/2017 / By JD Heyes

Prepper update: That time ISIS nearly found the ingredients for a dirty bomb

Serious intelligence and terrorism experts do not believe that members of the Islamic State — also known as ISIS — are a serious risk to infiltrate the United States. But that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t try, especially if they managed to develop a weapon that could harm thousands upon thousands of Americans. And according to […]

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