Inside the Uranium Underworld: Dark Secrets, Dirty Bombs
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ISIS Wants A Dirty Bomb – And It Knows Where To Get One.
In the popular culture, the dealers who traffic in such cargo are usually cast as lords of war with tailored suits and access to submarines. The reality is much less cinematic. According to police records reviewed by TIME in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, [Amiran Chaduneli’s associates (a flea-market trader in the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia) in the attempted uranium sale last spring included construction workers and scrap-metal traders. Looking at the sunken cheeks and lazy left eye in his mug shot, it seems improbable that lousy capers like this one could rise to the level of a national-security threat. But the ease of acquiring ingredients for a dirty bomb is precisely what makes them so worrying.
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