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First, Gabrielse used lasers to excite the electron in a cesium atom into a higher orbit. When the cesium atom collides with a positron, the electron binds with the positron, to create an atom that is half matter and half antimatter. When that atom collides with an antiproton, the positron binds to the antiproton, forming an antihydrogen atom...
...about combating terror. But the arrests also indicate that extremists are adopting new tactics for causing fresh havoc?perhaps in response to the pressure being put on them. On June 13 a Thai national was busted in Bangkok not with conventional explosives but with a potential dirty-bomb ingredient, cesium 137. This followed a seizure in Bangladesh on May 30 of a stash of radioactive uranium. Now, an unheralded arrest reveals that terrorists may be experimenting with yet another deadly agent: poison...
...targets in the city's backpacker quarter and in the popular tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Even more worrying was the June 13 nabbing of a 47-year-old Thai national named Narong Penanam in a Bangkok parking lot after he allegedly tried to sell 30 kilograms of cesium 137 to Thai undercover agents. Cesium 137, a highly radioactive isotope, could be used to make a dirty bomb?a conventional explosive packed with radioactive material...
...what he was peddling. But a U.S. embassy official present during an interview with the suspect said Narong admitted that he intended to sell the material to an unspecified terror group in Thailand, according to the Bangkok Post. Narong was hawking, for $240,000, an alarmingly large amount of cesium 137, experts said. His arrest marked the second such incident in Asia recently. On May 30, Bangladeshi police busted four suspected members of a militant Islamic group with a package of radioactive uranium suitable for use in a dirty bomb...
...center is flimsy. The 23,000-acre site is protected by just 180 G.I.s. A U.S. officer who visited one of the most tightly secured areas in the center in mid May was jumped by a bayonet-wielding looter. Highly irradiated equipment that survived the looting, like the 23 cesium 137 "pigs," metal sphere-like wrecking balls, are lying in the open air in an area visited by looters "until the last few days or so," a senior U.S. official told TIME. Troops protecting the approach to one of the most sensitive storage areas say that they still intercept...