How big of a threat are Dirty Bombs to major cities across the world?
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A lot bigger than you may think
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Big time threat! I expect it will happen soon! They're so easy to make and require so little in the way of materials! Other targets are also easy! Like gas storage farms! Gas piplines,truck and train transports! The list is endless! If anyone really wanted to attack it would be so incredibly easy to disrupt large segments of the economy and there really is very little they can do about it!
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I for one would not like to wake up to everybody's dirty laundry strewn about the streets.
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Sorry folks. This is my first Day on AB, and there seems to be some computer or internet foul-up: hence the repetion. I answered twice: now I've editted this particular post.
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Not much worse than chemical weapons. Likely no more fatalities than 911 ---perhaps less; and a big clean-up problem. Keep in mind that there are no nuclear, i.e. no fission or fusion explosions ---which would be far harder to create ---for most nation-states, much less sub-national groups. So I'm not too worried. I'm more concerned about the loss of our personal Freedoms, particularly in this "War on Terror."
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Dirty bombs take a radioactive material and disperse it into a target area. radio cobalt(60), and cesium, are the strongest emitters that can be found in quantities that are attractive to the process, but cobalt is hard to react into a cloud, while the cesium burns when exposed to water. If placed up wind and a modest amount of explosive is detonated after it reacts with the water, a fair airisol will be dispersed.
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