Fore!
: So now when I see a guy with a golf bag, I’m going to fear a dirty bomb:
With huge New Year’s Eve celebrations and college football bowl games only days away, the U.S. government last month dispatched scores of casually dressed nuclear scientists with sophisticated radiation detection equipment hidden in briefcases and golf bags to scour five major U.S. cities for radiological, or “dirty,” bombs, according to officials involved in the emergency effort.
The call-up of Department of Energy radiation experts to Washington, New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Baltimore was the first since the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks….
“Government officials are surprised that people [in the United States] aren’t more hyped about all this,” said one source familiar with counterterrorism preparations.
Even now, hundreds of nuclear and bioweapons scientists remain on high alert at several military bases around the country, ready to fly to any trouble spot. Pharmaceutical stockpiles for responding to biological attacks are on transportable trucks at key U.S. military bases.
Laugh… cry… cower in corner… I just can’t decide.
