Re: A "dirty bomb" question

[maury <maury@webtexas.com>]

Hi Louis,

Appears off hand that some very large number would be required. I

wonder what the density of smoke alarms in a typical city might be. It

never had any bearing on dirty bombs, but it just happens that there

are two smoke alarms in my house -- thus, I've already "spread" two of

them at my address in Ft. Worth! And I have not even exploded yet! <g>



Cheers,

Maury Siskel   maury@webtexas.com

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LNMolino@AOL.COM wrote:



>  As most of you know I teach in a federally sponsored (DHS ODP)

> training program for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). I had a

> fellow instructor present me with a question that he could not

> answer during our RAD/Nuclear module. How many elements from smoke

> detectors would it take to make an "effective" dirty bomb? Note that

> as for effective we are speaking in terms of giving us (response

> forces) a reading on a meter of greater than naturally occurring

> background.



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