Congressional red team discovers that it's trivial to acquire all the materials for a dirty nuke

Yup. And cracking open smoke detectors and handling their radiation sources improperly makes you end up looking like this:

(That’s David Hahn’s booking photo, aka the nuclear boy scout, years after his incident with the garden shed, when he was caught yet again working on his atomic dream.)

Imagine if you were futzing with enough material for a dirty bomb, instead of just a dozen or two smoke detector Americium sources.

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