U.S. considered radiological weapon for assasination

U.S. considered radiological weapon for assasination

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WASHINGTON - In one of the longest-held secrets of the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate "important individuals" such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly declassified documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Approved at the highest levels of the Army in 1948, the effort was a well-hidden part of the military's pursuit of a "new concept of warfare" using radioactive materials from atomic bombmaking to contaminate sw

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Nothing about who was considered a target for this type of attack but based on the assasination of Alexander Litvinenko, it would work fairly well. I would bet good money that Castro would have been a prefered target among others.

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Not too surprising really. I was watching Modern Marvels the other night and they were discussing the "weird" weapons of the Axis. The Germans had conceptualized the idea of a low earth orbit aircraft the would drop a bomb that had a radioactive "blanket" like material inside that would explode over a city and basically disperse said radioactive materials over the entire area. This was in what? The early 40's?