Pakistan's government - besieged by Islamists and providing a safe haven to al Qaeda - has placed ads in national newspapers asking people for information on missing radioactive material. They say not to worry:
A spokesman for the nuclear authority said that there was a "very remote chance" that nuclear materials imported 40-50 years ago were unaccounted for.
Reassured? Me neither.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/05/dont-panic/228638/
