About how the United States turned swathes of the desert radioactive during the cold war and denied it, bequeathing a medical mystery which to this day haunts Hollywood and rural Mormon communities and raises a thorny question: how much should you trust the government?
Hawke said he was confident that the answer to long-standing indigenous socioeconomic problems was to allow radioactive waste to be stored on Aboriginal land, and use the revenue to improve living standards.
In Britain, he aspired to recreate 9/11 by detonating limousines packed with explosives in underground carparks or setting off a "dirty bomb" full of radioactive material.
Despite having some of the largest deposits of uranium in the world, Australia has maintained a long-standing opposition to nuclear power and storing radioactive waste from overseas.
For all his radioactive uselessness, you do get a very real sense that Nick could still somehow be sitting there in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Indeed, the combination of Gross's poor investment returns and his eccentric behavior may have made him radioactive.
From 1951 to 1962 the AEC detonated more than 100 bombs, sending huge pinkish plumes of radioactive dust across the stony valleys and canyons of southern Utah and northern Arizona.
A gas attack on the Heathrow Express and a radioactive dirty bomb to cause pandemonium were other chilling schemes, the court heard.
The site was officially nominated for radioactive dumping but four different clans claimed they had not been consulted and that the site was near a sacred area.
"For more than 20 years Aboriginal communities at multiple sites in South Australia and the NT have mobilised and defeated federal government plans for a national radioactive waste dump on their country, most recently at Muckaty.
They are accused of trying to poison Litvinenko for the first time later that day – and of succeeding two weeks later when they slipped radioactive polonium into his tea.
