Think a dirty bomb can't happen?

If you think a dirty bomb can't happen here, then you won't like this story about a shipment of radioactive material sent from Russia to the US (where it was supposed to be received by Halliburton) but the container was mislabeled and sent to Boston instead of Texas (where it was supposed to go). The container was shipped in October, but not found until this month. What if terrorists seeking to build a dirty bomb had intercepted or somehow diverted the package (not impossible, they could hack in to the system or bribe someone at either end) and used it to build a dirty bomb? No one would have even known until after the bomb went off and Geiger counters starting going off. Kind of scary. It was not apparently Halliburtons fault, they notified the NRC as soon as the package was obviously missing. It looks like we can track a book order from Amazon but not a shipment of radioactive material, something that will probably change soon.

You can read about it here from the Seattle PI:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Missing%20Radioactive%20Material