Wednesday 12 March 2003 Dirty bombs  | At a United Nations conference in Vienna about the threat from terrorists of the so-called dirty bomb, the United States has promised more aid to help countries find lost or stolen radioactive material. This report from Bethany Bell: |
 Listen to the story The US Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham, said countries around the world had to work together to make sure that radioactive material is properly secured. He said radioactive substances used in medicine, industry and agriculture existed throughout the planet.Up to now, he said, the fight against nuclear proliferation has focused mainly on nuclear weapons. He said it was now time to highlight the danger of the possibility of smaller radioactive sources falling into the hands of terrorists who could create dirty bombs. Those might not be as lethal as nuclear weapons, he said, but they could still create a major impact. He said the US was giving three million dollars next year to help poorer countries secure potentially dangerous radioactive sources. The Russian minister for Atomic Energy, Alexander Rumyantsev, said the need to address the threat formed part of the larger fight against global terrorism. Bethany Bell, BBC, Vienna.
Listen to the words properly secured stored safely; if you secure something, you make it safe from harm or attack existed throughout the planet were in many parts of the world nuclear proliferation the spread of nuclear substances; if things proliferate, they quickly increase in number falling into the hands of coming into the possession or control of dirty bombs bombs which use conventional explosives to spread radioactive material lethal dangerous, deadly create a major impact cause a lot of damage potentially dangerous that might be dangerous address deal with formed part of was part of  Read more about this story | |  | | | SEARCH IN LEARNING ENGLISH | | | |
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