Re: Nova - Dirty Bombs - Who is their expert - FYI

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If the goal of this missive is to take our profession and drag it through the dirt, spit on it and otherwise lay it low until it aint no good anymore - then ok it is a good idea.


David Lawrence

Montclair NJ

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> My thought while reading this is that perhaps we should ignore the 
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> radioactivity of the dirty bomb. I mean hide the reality of the 
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> radioactivity from the general population! The bomb can do local damage 
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> and the radioactivity will do little real damage even over the lifetime 
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> of the exposed individuals. If they are never told of the 
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> radioactivity, then the psychological trauma will never occur. What 
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> would happen if we did not look for radioactivity or radiation? What 
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> would happen if we took our readings and called them all zero to the 
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> press and the government controllers? Would we all not be better off in 
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> the long run. The Soviet Union did this in Chelybinsk! Of course that 
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> was a MAJOR release. But they did not tell anyone about it for what, 25 
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> years! Nor do most people in the US, or the world for that matter, know 
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> anything about that event. Perhaps this would be a better way to handle 
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> the dirty bomb scenario.
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> . . .



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John Jacobus, MS

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