See complete Wash. Post article at [url]http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=83032[/url] and the original article that brought this reponse from the Feds.
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washingtonpost.com: U.S. Says It Bought Radiation Drug

By Justin Gillis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 3, 2002; Page A05

The federal government recently bought 1.6 million doses of a drug that protects against certain kinds of radioactive fallout and will buy at least 6 million additional doses in the coming year to create a large national stockpile, the Department of Health and Human Services said yesterday.