In the first radiological news story of 2012 Bed, Bath, & Beyond announced on January 12 that it had received a shipment of steel tissue holders (manufactured in India) that were contaminated with radioactive cobalt-60. As of this writing it is not quite certain exactly where the Co-60 came from, although there are some guesses (more [...]
My kids look perfectly normal – in my humble opinion maybe even a tad better than normal. This became an issue, actually, in the months following the 2002 arrest of Jose Padilla on charges he was plotting to set off a “dirty bomb.” How it became an issue is that I was interviewed by a [...]
Well, the world is still here. It didn’t end on May 21 as predicted by Harold Camping and it also didn’t end on the date of his revised prophecy – October 21. For those who were sober enough to notice, the world also failed to end at the dawn of the new millennium, just as [...]
Some of you might remember a short-lived television series called Dark Angel, which aired on the Fox network for two seasons (2000-2002). The series’ backstory included the premise that a terrorist group set off a high-altitude nuclear burst that destroyed most of the United States’ electronic and communications infrastructure, plunging the nation into chaos. Recently, [...]
One of my favorite movies is Ferris Buehler’s Day Off, and one of my favorite scenes is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning with a close-up of a bunch of dots of paint, the camera zooms out to show, first, a low-resolution face and, eventually, a painting (“Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La [...]
This last April I traveled with two colleagues to Japan to help train physicians from the Tokushukai Medical Assistance Team (TMAT) - we gave a total of 8 lectures to over 1200 physicians and emergency responders during our visit, discussing how to safely care for patients who might have been exposed to radiation or who might [...]