[ RadSafe ] Article: Dirty Bombs Not Such a Blast

[LNMolino at aol.com]

>From the First Responder aspect this is really not that new of an idea.  Many 
of us have long felt and long taught that if anyone was close enough to get  
any significant RAD does they'd likely be dead from the blast and it's effect 
if  this was your "traditional IED", having said that in the same paragraph we 
would  point out that from a  public perception standpoint this would be a  
nightmare as the public would hear RAD and stop hearing at that point and allow 
 their "sci fi" education to take over. 
 
We'd discuss how it would be if an RDD were detonated say at some amusement  
park that shall remain nameless how some folks that would likely otherwise be 
an  annual visitor to that park might never be willing to set foot in said 
park  regardless of any level of "assurances" that it was safe. 
 
Education of the pubic is the key and it's the last thing we do to prepare  
for such attacks or so it seems. 
 
Louis N.  Molino, Sr., CET
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