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...Omen The U.S. Postal Service is stockpiling 1.6 million potassium iodide pills to give employees in order to protect them against thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear attack

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...wife of Osama Bassnan. Bassnan first came to the attention of the Saudi Embassy in Washington in April 1998, when he wrote a pleading letter to Princess Haifa introducing himself as a Saudi living in Washington with four children and a pregnant wife, who also had a severe thyroid condition. After vetting by the Saudi Embassy, sources say, the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar, responded by making a payment of $15,000 to Bassnan himself. Such applications for financial help are not uncommon in Saudi Arabia, nor is such reciprocal generosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feds Doubt Allegations of Saudi Terror Funding | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

Potassium-iodide pills are becoming to dirty bombs what Cipro was to anthrax. Potassium iodide can help prevent thyroid cancer following exposure to a nuclear explosion, by saturating the gland with benign iodine, preventing the thyroid from soaking up radioactive iodine, I-131, released by the blast. But that won't help in the case of a dirty bomb, as a homemade explosive is unlikely to contain radioactive iodine. The half-life of the I-131 isotope is only eight days, making it a poor choice for a weapon that counts on radioactivity for its effectiveness. If a terrorist obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defusing The Terror | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...only when they are submitted to the EPA--or when they are leaked to the press. A year and a half ago, newspapers in California reported that researchers there were paying healthy volunteers $1,000 to complete a six-month regimen of perchlorate, a rocket-fuel component that disrupts thyroid function and may cause retardation in babies. Lockheed Martin funded the study after some 800 lawsuits charged that the company leaked perchlorate into the water supply and made people sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poisoning For Dollars | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

Nonetheless, potassium iodide has had its successes. Following Chernobyl, which released a giant plume of radiation, the Polish government distributed tablets to the population, while neighboring Belarus didn't. Fifteen years later, the incidence of thyroid cancer has not changed in Poland, while it has jumped an alarming 100-fold among 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This The Next Cipro? Not Quite | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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