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• Threat of a nuclear attack on Europe at its highest level since Cold War
• ISIS continues to try to obtain nuclears and threat attack on the West
• Paris and Brussels terrorists had studied Belgian nuclear power plant

By SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE, 9 June 2016 

The threat of a ‘dirty bomb’ terror attack on a European city is at its highest level since the end of the Cold War, international nuclear experts have warned.

ISIS’s efforts to obtain nuclear materials, and continued threats to attack Western capitals contribute to experts’ analysis that the threat of a bomb is higher than ever.

ISIS has used chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria and militants linked to both the Paris and Brussels attacks had been studying a Belgian nuclear power plant.

‘ISIS has already carried out numerous chemical weapons attacks in Syria,’ Moshe Kantor, head of Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, said at a conference on Tuesday.

‘We know it wants to go further by carrying out a nuclear attack in the heart of Europe.

‘This, combined with poor levels of security at a host of nuclear research centres in the former Soviet Union mean the threat of a possible ‘dirty-bomb’ attack on a Western capital is high.’

He urged the United States and Russia, both nuclear powers, to cooperate on using their technological resources to monitor the illegal transportation of radioactive materials.

In March, it emerged that Brussels suicide bomber brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui had originally been considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium…….http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3632958/The-threat-NUCLEAR-terror-attack-highest-Cold-War-ISIS-continues-try-obtain-materials-dirty-bomb-warns-international-think-tank.html