Sunday, 16. March 2003
Topic: W A R - on March 16, 2003 at 12:06:21 PM CET
U.S., Russian Experts Test 'Dirty Bombs'
In New Mexico's desert and Russia's Ural Mountains, U.S. and Russian experts are experimenting with simulated ``dirty bombs'' to see how such radiation weapons and potential terrorist tools might work, officials of the two countries say.
It's a sensitive area in which some information is withheld to keep clues to bomb-building out of terrorists' hands. But American and Russian specialists attending a global conference on dirty bombs disclosed some aspects of recent testing to a reporter because, as a ranking U.S. official said, the public should know everything is being done to deal with the threat.
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