Radioactive Devices Go Astray in Canada?

How do radioactive devices go "astray" at all?

Does it up and decide to go on an unscheduled vacation? Sprout legs and take a trip to Vegas? I'd have thought that maybe someone would be keeping a serious eye on this sort of thing...considering...

I'm not sure if this has been posted somewhere already but this is pretty alarming considering the surge of new threats and recent attempted attacks. That coupled with the US Govt recently claiming a terror "Spectacular" could come this summer, makes me wonder if we're being prepped for the big one that our Government in the States already sees coming.

I remember news reports back in the late 90's
about radioactive devices stolen from construction
sites around South Florida.

I would joke with my Dad that someone
must be building a bomb. I haven't heard
anything about such things until you
brought this forward. Great find.

The stolen devices from Canada I find a bit disturbing.



They make it clear right off the bat,
"could be used in terrorist attack"

I would like to point out events that took place on June 26th:

-US ran nuclear weapons exercises the week before Bush-Putin summit
-Confirmed by the Washington Post

Coupled with this happening the same day:
-Chicago Emergency Alert System Activated Today (6/26/07) By Presidential Code

In addition:
Al Qaeda's No. 2 says end of West imminent

One year ago, on June 19th 2006:
4,000 government workers head to bunkers

Part of me says they could never make
a homemade nuclear device powerful
enough to cause a "spectacular" but the
other part of me remembers all that talk
about missing suitcase nukes and what not..

Let's hope this amounts to nothing.

[edit on 7/6/2007 by aecreate]

You figure after the first one or two go missing you take action. I think G. W. said it best; "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..... uhh, um you can fool me again!" Apparently that is not the case.

Here's a new article that appears to be related:

Agencies race to prepare for attack by dirty bomb


I don't know about ya'll, but I'm willing to
bet that the next terror "spectacular" is going
to be a dirty bomb device.

What exactly is the blast radius and fallout level from a suitcase nuke opposed to a dirty bomb?

That's a good question that I've often wondered.
I'll leave that for the ATS Subject Matter Experts.

Depends on how much fissile material is used - but a suitcase bomb can usually be measured in city blocks, after all they were intended for demolition work. Then youv'e got the fall out to deal with, that has a lot to do with the weather on the day (wind strength rain etc)

Also making and maintaining a nuke is difficult, it's not just a case of obtaining one and storing it till the right day comes along.

IMO if the bad dudes have laid their hands on random amounts of fairly low level material - from x- ray machines for example, it would be a waste of time to get it refined to weapons grade - much much easier to simply strap it to a large amount of conventional high explosives (we all know they wont have too much dificulty there) put it in a car / van, wait for a nice sunny day with a good breeze in the right direction and go mess up everyones day.

Thanks for that info, man. I wasn't aware how old this issue actually was.

I guess this may be an old scenario and it might be getting more attention now (although not as much as it should) but to think that the materials for a dirty bomb (which is probably what the mats would be used for) are as easy to find as walking through a farmers backyard is a bit chilling.



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[edit on 9-7-2007 by 12m8keall2c]

That is the main purpose behind the dirty bomb. The destruction itself is nothing compared to the radioactive dust that will spread via the winds. The idea is not to "nuke" a city but to irradiate it. The panic alone would also emotionally cripple anyone even near the area. Essentially shutting the whole city down.

I know mate - that is why I went on to say



link

Found the above paragraph quite interesting, might we seen an increase of false alarms leading up to an attack? - sorta like calling wolf enough times the villages ignor you.

What sort of devices are going missing any way, I know that medical scanners and x-ray machines are top targets, I suppose civil engineers have even more powerfull x-ray machines.

Smoke detectors seems a bit of a none started unless your just wanting to play mind games.

Yes I saw.

I just wanted to explain the concept you briefly mentioned with a little more detail and include a link with a longer more full explanation on the device.

There is often a misconception about the function of a dirty bomb that I've come across online a few times so I wanted to drive the point home, not steal your thunder my friend.