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Boston hospitals have devices used to make dirty bombs. Why won’t they ditch them?

Por: The Boston Globe Opinion July 20, 2023

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Boston Strong turned 10 this year. In April 2013, two improvised pressure-cooker bombs were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 200. But imagine if those bombs — or a bomb set off in Back Bay or Beacon Hill, the South End, or the Seaport — had spewed radiation. Imagine if the blast required mass evacuations and a cleanup that cost billions of dollars and was still going on 10 years... + full article



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