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ISIS was close: Locked away in a storage room on a Mosul college campus were two caches of cobalt-60 (the core ingredient of a “dirty bomb” ).

July 23rd, 2017

‘…..“The worst case would have been the Islamic State widely dispersing the radioactive cobalt in a city, causing panic and an expensive, disruptive cleanup,” said Albright, a nuclear weapons expert and former U.N. weapons inspector. “There would likely not have been that many deaths, but the panic could have been profound, leading to the emptying of parts of the city as residents fled, fearful of the effects of radiation.”….’

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