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Sprol.com » Alliant Technologies in Edina, Minnesota: "When you read “dirty bomb,” you probably think of terrorists - Jose’ Padilla, Adnan el Shukrijumah, Osama bin Laden. But the premier producer of “dirty weaponry” – weapons containing radioactive material – isn’t in Pakistan, or North Korea, or anywhere other than the pretty, mild-mannered, Midwestern town of Edina, Minnesota. A company called Alliant Technologies is at home amid the golf courses and subdivisions.

Alliant Technologies makes its living by being one of the largest private contractors for the U.S. Department of Defense. Among its many products, Alliant appears to be the only U.S. provider of weapons loaded with “depleted” uranium, or DU.

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