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• - Portal to current news articles on radiological weapons.
  
• - Factsheet from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the impact and likely response to a radiological attack.
  
• - Discusses the effects and spread of EMP weapons, which can jam or render useless an enemy's communication infrastructure.
  
• - Transcript of the testimony of Henry Kelly to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the threat of radiological attack by terrorist groups.
  
• - Interactive feature from USA Today describing the workings of a "dirty bomb".
  
• - Article from the Federation of American Scientists on the attempts by Iraq to build radiological weapons.
  
• - Report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies on the threat and potential use of radiological "dirty" bombs. [In Adobe PDF format]
  
• - Describes the lethality of microwave weapons. With references and sources.
  
• - Highlights the dangers of uncontrolled radiological material in the former Soviet Union. From the Washington Post.
  
• - Explains how a radiological bomb works and what effect it might have.