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Mon Sep-01-03 07:30 PM
Response to Reply #46 |
48. A rhetorical statement. Dirty bombs are on the level of an urban myth |
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A dirty bomb, theoretically, is highly radioactive materials (preferably something at the gamma level) distributed by detonating conventional explosives.
The problem is that they would be impossible at any appreciable level of destruction to build without killing the builders or making transport of such a bomb impossible to conceal.
The difficulty is the relationshipe between the amount of the materials, the lethality of radiation and the ability to maintain containment before arrival or building at the target destination.
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