Don’t Panic: Pakistan Is Looking For Lost Nuclear Material
JUST say, for arguments sake, that while out and about in Pakistan you happened to stumple upon some nuclear material? What would you do? This is, of course, a hypothetical question and in no way, er, based on anything that could happen in so ordered a land, rioting permitting.
From Nature:
A Pakistani public information campaign about what to do if you stumble across stray radioactive material is raising hairs on the necks of Western arms control experts.The ads, which appeared last week in several Urdu-language newspapers, featured the large, yellow radiation symbol and a warning to report any lost or misplaced isotopes.
“As public education campaigns go, it’s unique,” says Jeffrey Lewis, director of nuclear strategy and nonproliferation at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. Lewis says he was “shocked” to hear of the announcements.
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May 14th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Tabloid sensationalism is right.
Did anyone actually have this translated by authentic native speaker and not some Indian or Indophile?
All it really says is that
Do you recognize this symbol and DO you know what it means?
If you see it do not handle that material but call appropriate authorities.
I see such badly written public announcements frequently from local governing bodies. What is the big deal?
If you think they had actually lost radioactive material to terrorists, one would not expect them to leave the radiation symbol on it? Perhaps you would!!!!
Did you ever report an incident in which Indian Nuclear Authorities actually owned up to theft of radioactive material and a police case was registered in Bihar-Bengal region? No perhaps that was not funny to you?Ha HA