This is not good.

[arisbe]

TIRASPOL, Moldova -- In the ethnic conflicts that surrounded the collapse of the Soviet Union, fighters in several countries seized upon an unlikely new weapon: a small, thin rocket known as the Alazan. Originally built for weather experiments, the Alazan rockets were packed with explosives and lobbed into cities. Military records show that at least 38 Alazan warheads were modified to carry radioactive material, effectively creating the world's first surface-to-surface dirty bomb.

The radioactive warheads are not known to have been used. But now, according to experts and officials, they have disappeared.

Comments

I know it's not...

[publius-aelius.livejournal.com]

...but it's also probably inevitable, Frank. In some very significant ways, we deserve it.

Re: I know it's not...

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Things being the way they are doen below, if I thought we really deserved it I would be sure we wouldn't get it.