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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

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A Nuclear-Armed ISIS? It’s Not That Farfetched, Expert Says


In this photo made from video a simulated radioactive "dirty bombs" explodes on a bus which was used to test the ability of federal and local agencies to deal with a real terrorist attack Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007, in Portland, Ore.The murder of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear facility just two days after the Brussels attacks, coupled with evidence that Islamic State operatives had been watching researchers there, has re-ignited fears about ISIS and nuclear terrorism. Some experts, including ones cited by the New York Timesand others, dismiss the possibility that ISIS could make even a crude nuclear bomb. But Matthew Bunn, the co-principal investigator at the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard’s Belfer Center, says that the threat is quite real.

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