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'The unthinkable has
happened again...'
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A student gets scanned during a
triage/decontamination exercise in a Portland high school.
(Photo by Don Manuszewski, U.S. Army North) |
It is the stuff of modern nightmares…
Terrorists explode a radioactive dirty bomb near a power plant in
Guam, causing casualties and contaminating a widespread area. As this drama
plays out on international news, two more dirty bombs explode in Portland
and Phoenix. As local and federal agencies race to treat the wounded, and
identify and measure the radioactivity, there is a grim echo of Sept. 11,
2001…the unthinkable has happened again…
Fortunately, Uncle Sam pays many people to think about the unthinkable
and prepare for it, including people in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (More...)
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