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...simple--but of limited value. First, little if any iodine is given off by a so-called dirty bomb--radioactive waste wrapped around a conventional explosive--which is the device a terrorist would be most likely to manage. Second, even if radioactive iodine were present, potassium iodide would protect only against thyroid cancer--which is not the sole cancer risk...
...some Belarussian children. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now giving states the option of stocking up on potassium iodide for communities near the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. Still, the NRC emphasizes that the drug is not the next Cipro. Says NRC spokesman William Beecher: "It can protect only one part of the body against one radioactive element...
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is hoping to hasten federal approval of another drug, 5-androstenediol, an immune-system booster that appears to protect mice from radiation. Still another medication, amifostine, is already used to protect the salivary glands of cancer patients during radiation treatment and could find applications in the terror wars as well...
...relations between the U.S. and Russia are, in the administration?s words, characterized by a "hope of greater prosperity and peace." The President said as much at a formal declaration in the Rose Garden: "I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government's ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue-state missile attacks." Thursday?s announcement means the U.S. will be free of the treaty in six month?s time...
...with terrorists who are intent on using non-traditional weapons - i.e. biological and chemical weapons, or using our own airplanes as missiles - is the missile shield what we really need right now? Some Democrats, like Florida Representative Robert Wexler, argue that a missile shield would do very little to protect the country from an intangible and amorphous threat. "Our military forces have been designed primarily to fight a conventional war with a conventional enemy, and we've learned the hard way that as much destruction can be caused by an errant airplane as by a powerful bomb," Wexler told...