Federal Agents Smuggle Dirty Bomb Material into U.S.

Two teams of federal agents toting enough radioactive material to build two dirty bombs succeeded in smuggling the goods of evil into the U.S. at points along the northern and southern border, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

As reported by CNN, the agents bought the nuclear material from a commercial source, then posed as employees of a fake company to sneak it across the borders.

The GAO report is just one of three sent to Congress on the subject of smuggling and detection of nuclear material.

A dirty bomb, while incapable of producing a nuclear detonation, uses conventional explosives to disperse potentially deadly radioactive material into the atmosphere, creating the effect of nuclear fallout without the nuclear blast.

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