The World's Most Dangerous Job?


	The World's Most Dangerous Job?

ColoradoRight

10-22-2009 2:09 PM

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united nations, nuclear, weapons, inspection, death, stairwell, twice?

ColoradoRight says:

He worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, an international agency charged with uncovering illicit nuclear tests.

A UN spokesman in the Austrian capital said there were no "suspicious circumstances" surrounding the man's death, while a police spokesman said that no other person was believed to have been involved.

No suicide note has been found.

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10-22-2009 5:45 PM

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