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Real Security: Spy Case Raises Questions on Radiation Response

A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

If the poisoning of one man can pose such a serious test for the British government, how would it handle a full-scale radiological attack?

A week after former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed by the radioactive poison Polonium 210, some security analysts see major flaws in the emergency response system and question its ability to cope with a larger crisis.

Among their chief concerns is the three weeks it took for doctors to establish that the dying Litvinenko had been poisoned by a nuclear substance.

posted by Fergie @ 12/01/2006 03:03:00 PM