US lacks labs to test for 'dirty bomb'
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The U.S. has a shortage of laboratories to test the thousands of people who might be exposed to radiation if a "dirty bomb" detonated in a major city, according to a recent congressional investigation.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- A nationwide inventory by the US Department of Energy has found that data involving nuclear weapons is missing from a regional office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Associated Press reported.
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According to testimony Tuesday, exporters have been able to bring tainted products into the U.S. because the F.D.A. has neither enough resources nor inspectors to stop them.
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LONDON [MENL] -- The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that several hundred tons of conventional explosives have gone missing from an Iraqi military facility.
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A US official expressed alarm Thursday about a possible nuclear-weapons related test site in Iran and accused the UN nuclear watchdog agency of keeping silent on its own concerns about the issue.
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Radiation detectors set up to alert authorities to potential dirty bombs are sounding the alarm about some unlikely suspects: patients who have had tests or treatments using radioactive medicines.
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The Trust for America&#39;s Health says most states don&#39;t even have a comprehensive response plan for an emergency involving a biological weaon.
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Eighteen troops could have been given  contaminated blood after US failed to follow testing procedures
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological  and chemical weapons and its nuclear program had decayed before  last year's U.S.-led invasion, the chief U.S. weapons inspector  said on Wednesday, in findings contrary to prewar assertions of  the Bush administration.
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Iraq had no stockpiles of biological  and chemical weapons before last year's U.S.-led invasion and  its nuclear program had decayed since the 1991 Gulf War, the  chief U.S. weapons inspector said on Wednesday.
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There was no immediate word on the cause of the explosion.
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US still lacks spies on the ground and native speakers to combat Islamic terrorists.
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WASHINGTON - Here&#39;s the US government&#39;s bottom line: No, Iraq didn&#39;t have significant stockpiles of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons at the time of the US-led invasion last spring.
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The federal government still has limited capacity to detect a disease outbreak and track its progress across the country.
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The federal government has been unable to move bomb-detection technologies from the laboratory to the airport successfully.
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Screeners failed to find most of the fake bombs smuggled by plainclothes investigators through checkpoints at two major airports from late 2005 until last fall, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.
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As questions emerge over whether a large explosion last week in North Korea was nuclear-related, top US officials do not think it was a nuclear test.