It is not based on current radiological conditions.
Steeper Learning Curve Last fall, in the vast exhibition hall at McCormick Place in Chicago, dozens of companies from around the world displayed their latest radiological weapons in the war on cancer.
Thorotrast is a 25% colloidal solution of natural α-emitter, thorium dioxide used as a radiological contrast medium during World War II.
Even less is known of an additional 600 radiological sources stored before the war at other sites in Iraq.
And while acquiring a nuclear weapon is difficult, the possibility that terrorists might employ radiological waste to wage a dirty war seems disturbingly plausible.
Dr. G., was a lieutenant commander in the Navy on duty with the Manhattan District during the war & was a senior radiological monitor at Bikini.
The reactor used in making the prototype radiological weapon was itself bombed during the gulf war in 1991, and inspectors tried to keep Iraq from resuming its nuclear efforts for years afterward.
Since the Iraq war, the importance of the CBRN Chemicall, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) role, as it is now called, has been acknowledged and in 2005 all five of the RY's squadrons adopted it.
Iraq's testing of its radiological weapon was done in 1987 as it waged a war of attrition against Iran and considered the radiation bomb as a way to cripple enemy forces.
During World War I, she established the first military field radiological centres.
