{"id":641963,"date":"2020-01-02T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641963"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:14:33","slug":"terrorists-could-make-a-dirty-bomb-from-this-common-medical-device-why-regulators-wont-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641963","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists could make a &#039;dirty bomb&#039; from this common medical device; why regulators won&#039;t act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific experts warned Congress more than a decade ago that just four teaspoons of radioactive cesium-137\u2014if spread by a terrorist&#8217;s &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221;\u2014could contaminate up to 10 square miles of Manhattan.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-terrorists-dirty-common-medical-device.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Terrorists could make a &#8216;dirty bomb&#8217; from this common medical device; why regulators won&#8217;t act<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific experts warned Congress more than a decade ago that just four teaspoons of radioactive cesium-137\u2014if spread by a terrorist&#8217;s &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221;\u2014could contaminate up to 10 square miles of Manhattan.&#013;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}