Shop take: The Sawed-Off | Irradiated Alert is the kind of skin you buy when you want Nuke energy without opening your wallet for Covert drama. Consumer rarity keeps listings common on C5GAME and Steam Community Market—compare same-float listings, then inspect in 3D to see whether the radiation warning graphic sits where you like it. Thumbnail lies; wear does not.

What you are actually buying

Released 14 August 2013 with The Arms Deal and the Nuke Collection. Finish: spray paint, internal name sp_nukestripe_brown, finish index 171, Valve in-house—no community designer credit. Wear band 0.06–0.80: Factory New does not start at 0.00, so always read the float on the listing.

Drops and boxes

Besides the Nuke Collection itself, Irradiated Alert appears in multiple Nuke Souvenir Packages tied to Majors (ESL One Cologne 2014, DreamHack 2014, Katowice 2015, MLG Columbus 2016, Cologne 2016, Atlanta 2017, Krakow 2017, Boston 2018, and related Nuke souvenir packs). If you are building a map-themed loadout or a “which Major did I pull this from?” shelf, this is often the baseline pull—not the flex piece.

Wear and look

At the low end (near 0.06), you get the cleanest hazard read; push toward high wear and the warning motif ages—more scratches, more “battle-scarred lab” mood. Neither end is an investment tier skin; pricing tracks float and supply like a daily set piece, not blue-chip tradable.

Worth it?

Yes, if: you need cheap Nuke cohesion, souvenir set padding, or trade-up fodder with a clear theme.

Skip or bargain hard if: you want a showpiece Sawed-Off—this will never carry that weight.

Expert mutterings: I still see people pay FN premiums without checking float because “Consumer = cheap anyway.” The 0.06 floor means two “FN” cards can look different in hand. Spend thirty seconds in inspect; that is the whole value prop of this skin—the warning art placement, not rarity hype.