Abdel Julio Gonzalez, director of Radiation and Waste Safety at the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Reuters during an
interview in Vienna's IAEA headquarters November 14, 2002 that the use
of dirty bombs as terrorist weapons has been overplayed, adding that
global cooperation was needed to control potential threats. So-called
dirty bombs that scatter radioactive material through explosive
devices, have made headlines since the September 11, 2001 attacks in
the U.S., with officials warning of unlicensed (missing) radioactive
material that could be used to make them. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader

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