The expanding nuclear capabilities of both state and non-state actors call for increasing awareness of nuclear personal protective equipment (PPE). In contrast to the common perception, nuclear PPE is needed not only after detonation of a radiological device. A significant portion of the military’s strength is expended towards preventing a nuclear disaster, and this in [...]
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Despite prevention efforts by both the military and internal security agencies, the use of a radiological dispersal device (RDD – commonly referred to as a dirty bomb) by hostile state and non-state actors is widely believed to be just a matter of time. An RDD is composed of relatively easy-to-obtain radioactive material (such as iridium [...]
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“StemRad has answered the challenge of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.” -Japan Ambassador H.E. Hideo Sato The military brings the overwhelming capability to help a civilian population cope with humanitarian disasters, as it did during Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Now (for the first time ever) military personnel can be protected from exposure [...]
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“We cannot expect that the defensive measures we take to prevent terrorists from infiltrating a nuclear device into our country will succeed indefinitely in a world where more and more nations—some reliable, others less so—acquire the capabilities to build the bomb. Like the levees around New Orleans, sooner or later the rising tide of nuclear [...]
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