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I wonder if unenriched but still radioactive uranium chucked inside a conventional explosive bomb would be as scary as that sounds to me.
by girvo 6y ago
I wonder if unenriched but still radioactive uranium chucked inside a conventional explosive bomb would be as scary as that sounds to me.
- xeromal 6y agoPretty sure they call that a dirty bomb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb
- agogdog 6y agoUntil recently I didn't realize that dirty bombs were considered to only be marginally more dangerous than conventional bombs... it's interesting how the psyop component of the concept of a dirty bomb is kind of played up a bit even by our own government.
- eloff 6y agoNot really. Basically just slightly scarier than the bomb itself. It's not an effective terrorist strategy, since slightly raising cancer risk over a long period of time is one of the least dramatic and fear inspiring things. The really dangerous stuff they don't seem to do, like lighting the forests on fire at the height of fire season, or engineering an airborne pandemic. Thankfully.
- bsder 6y agoYou would be in more danger from the Uranium acting as a heavy metal ion poison than from radiation. Breathing fine powders of metal ions is generally unwise--radioactive or no.