The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday January 20th, 2023
Rampant Speculation: Uranium, Dirty Bombs and Heathrow by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
The dirty bomb and its purportedly famed radiation dispersal attributes has an undeserved mythology. It serves to bloat budgets and confer grants on specious theories propounded by specious theorists. It is all rather easy to make a security threat up, and a celluloid, Hollywood scenario of a dirty bomb going off in the middle of a metropolis killing thousands is just one of those instances. Scaring people is child’s play and often the work of the unscrupulous.
This month, it was announced that staff at London’s Heathrow airport, where the appearance of snowflakes is enough to cancel flights, encountered what was alleged to be cargo contaminated by uranium on December 29. The Sun was the first paper to scream from the rooftops about a “Deadly shipment of uranium seized at Heathrow en route to Iranians based in UK”. The paper went on to suggest that the material in question “can be used in a dirty bomb.” In the narrative, all the appropriate countries were mentioned: dark origins in Pakistan; arrival on a flight from Oman; destination: UK-based nationals from Iran.
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The Way Archimedes Proved Ideas #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“If all the pencils and pens
in the world disappeared,
I would write your name
in the ashes on the hearth.”
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Worming #57 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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