News and Media

» Dirty Bombs    Factsheet from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the impact and likely response to a radiological attack.    http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/dirty-bombs.html

» Dirty Bombs: Response to a Threat    Transcript of the testimony of Henry Kelly to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the threat of radiological attack by terrorist groups.    http://www.fas.org/faspir/2002/v55n2/dirtybomb.htm

» Electro-magnetic Pulse (EMP) Systems    Discusses the effects and spread of EMP weapons, which can jam or render useless an enemy's communication infrastructure.    http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~valeri/EMP.html

» How a 'Dirty' Bomb Works    Interactive feature from USA Today describing the workings of a "dirty bomb".    http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/news/gra/gdirtybomb/frame.htm

» Howstuffworks: "How Dirty Bombs Work"    Explains how a radiological bomb works and what effect it might have.    http://www.howstuffworks.com/dirty-bomb.htm

» Misuse of Microwave Weapons by Criminals and Terrorists    Describes the lethality of microwave weapons. With references and sources.    http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/english/

» Radiological Weapons    Portal to current news articles on radiological weapons.    http://www.gyre.org/news/explore/Radiological+Weapons

» Radiological Weapons - Iraq Special Weapons    Article from the Federation of American Scientists on the attempts by Iraq to build radiological weapons.    http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/other/radiological.htm

» Radiological Weapons as a Means of Attack    Report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies on the threat and potential use of radiological "dirty" bombs. [In Adobe PDF format]    http://www.csis.org/burke/hd/reports/radiological.pdf