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RE: 'Dirty Bomb' Was Major New Year's Worry
Not all attacks are body counts, economic damage is
also prt of the gig,,,,
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:50:50 -0800, "Flood, John" wrote:
>
> I agree with Sandy. It seems rather unlikely that a
> terrorist organization
> could acquire a seriously large source without being
> detected (what are the
> chances a food irradiator would fail to notice the
> source is gone?), without
> killing or disabling themselves, and move it to the
> target location without
> being rather conspicuous (especially moving across a
> major fraction of the
> planet). Reducing the source strength enough to avoid
> these problems could
> actually result in an event that demonstrates to the
> public how unimportant
> small amounts of radioactivity really are.
>
> However, all this talk of dirty bombs overlooks one
> fundamental concept.
> Every terrorist attack in my lifetime has been
designed
> to produce a body
> count. To shift from this to a dirty bomb that harms
a
> location and causes
> disruption and economic consequences would indicate a
> complete change of
> personality on the part of the terrorists. I have
seen
> no evidence to
> support this idea.
>
> Bob Flood
> NTS Dosimetry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET]
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:17 PM
> To: Kai Kaletsch; radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu
> Subject: Re: 'Dirty Bomb' Was Major New Year's Worry
>
> On 8 Jan 2004 at 14:39, Kai Kaletsch wrote:
>
> > If there is someone running around with a
> > bunch of spent fuel or enough Pu to make an
effective
> dirty bomb, then
> > the public should know!
>
> I heard an "expert" on TV last night state that food
> irradiators is
> also a target to obtain a source that could be used to
> make a dirty
> bomb. My thoughts on anyone using spent fuel, or other
> high dose rate
> source, such as Co-60 or Cs-137 (high dose irradiator)
> is how they
> are supposed to actually get to the source, shield it
> and then move
> it as easily as the "experts" think they can?
>
> I'll speculate that the primary use of a dirty bomb is
> to cause
> significant emotional stress to a designated
> population. One doesn't
> need a high dose source to do that. A simple nuclear
> medicine package
> that spews "contamination" into a downtown area is all
> that is
> needed. Just look at the fear the public already
> demonstrates, and,
> this is all compounded by government "experts" who are
> simply
> agitating the public with their sometimes ridiculous
> rhetoric!
>
>
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