Scientists Who Smuggle Radioactive Materials

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @02:13PM from the probably-more-ethical-than-most-ways-they-can-get-funding dept.

Lasrick writes: Although the complicity of scientists in the smuggling of radioactive materials has been a long-standing concern, smuggling-prevention efforts have so far failed to recognize a key aspect to the problem: scientists are often sought out to test the quality and level of the material well before it is taken to the black market. Egle Murauskaite of the U.S. National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) describes why concentrating on this aspect of the smuggling process, long considered less egregious than the actual selling of the material, could really make a difference in keeping radioactive materials off the black market in the first place.

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Re:Fear Mongering continued by dbIII · 2014-08-12 20:16 · Score: 1, Insightful

That actually sounds quite lucid. Have you given up on your "the US government faked 9/11, set fire to a building next to ground zero, and there was no plane at the Pentagon" conspriracy theories?