Dirty bomb scenario

[Chuck Cooper <ccc@pp.pdx.edu>]

The Federation of American Scientists has an assessment of the "Dirty 

Bomb" scenario worth reading:



      Dirty Bombs: Response to a Threat

      The US has indicated its willingness to spend hundreds of billions of

      dollars to combat threats that are, in our view, far less likely 

to occur

      than a radiological attack. This includes funding defensive measures

      that are far less likely to succeed than the measures that we 

propose in

      this testimony. The comparatively modest investments to reduce the

      danger of radiological attack surely deserve priority support.

=Snip=

See:

http://www.fas.org/faspir/2002/v55n2/index.html



Chuck Cooper

Dir. EH&S

Portland State University



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