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Republican lawmaker talks ‘nightmare scenario’ of nuclear dirty bomb

elephant-terror-in-roomU.S. Rep. King talks ‘nightmare scenario’ of nuclear dirty bomb  Boston Herald, April 19, 2015 By: Paul Bush While other Republicans were in Nashua for the party’s summit Friday morning, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) was at Franklin Pierce University warning about the dangers the country faces from Islamic State fighters and from a possible nuclear “dirty bomb” attack.

King, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, told a standing-room-only crowd that America’s next threat isn’t coming from another 9/11 terrorist attack, but instead is being shaped by Americans and Europeans currently fighting for the Islamic State (ISIS)………

King also cited his fears that future terrorists would make a crude bomb from nuclear materials that would create massive radioactive contamination.

“One nightmare scenario would be to have one or more dirty bombs put together 50 or 60 miles outside of a city and then brought into an urban area,” King said……

April 20, 2015 - Posted by | general

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