First radioactive terrorist bomb??

[The PIT]

According to bbc news and teletext the us arrested a known terrorist carrying a radioactive bomb. Nice world isn't it.

[Jammrock]

It's called a "dirty bomb". It's not a nuclear explosion, but the bomb contains radioactive materials. When detonated, it will release the particles, which would cause lots of health problems in the area, but not near as bad as a nuke.

As for the world...sometime you wonder what people are smoking to give them their delusions.

Jammrock

[Strahd]

Re: First radioactive terrorist bomb??

Originally posted by The PIT
Nice world isn't it.

Sad.

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Jammrock
It's called a "dirty bomb". It's not a nuclear explosion, but the bomb contains radioactive materials. When detonated, it will release the particles, which would cause lots of health problems in the area, but not near as bad as a nuke.

As for the world...sometime you wonder what people are smoking to give them their delusions.

Jammrock

Yes but how long for the nuke it won't be long. Hopefully they'll get it wrong and blow there sick training camps up.

[Gurm]

They can't make a bomb. They could steal one, or buy one from the underpaid guards at former soviet missile installations.

But let's be clear that it is far more difficult to fabricate a nuclear weapon than most people think.

- Gurm

[RedRed]

you are right there, Gurm.....

there is a problem with 'dirty bombs' too.....
While the materiel required is probably easier to obtain (any heavily radioactive substance), it is very difficult to vapourise completely.... there is little point in making a small bomb with a pound of uranium round it.... it would need to be vapourised to ensure maximum spread of the contamination..... otherwise the crater would be radioactive, but little else.... The Sarin attacks in Japan a few years ago demonstrated this.... the 'misting' must be very fine to spread.

perhaps if the bomb was let off at altitude, and with sufficient force there might be an impact, otherwise it would be a terror scare, but little else.....

the only workable dirty bomb would be one manufactured by a state, with the technical resources to build one..... I would think...


regards
RedRed

[Dr Mordrid]

Gurm;

Given the right machinery any decent physics grad student could make a serviceable nuke given some U238 or Plutonium. One does not have to use the more sophisticated implosion design (ex: Fat Man, W80) most people think of when they imagine nuke internals.

Making one is moderately easy, if a bit inefficient in terms of fuel usage (only 1.38% of the material was actually fissioned at Hiroshima), if you use the design typical of the suitcase bombs or Little Boy; you just jam two subcritical masses together using a gun barrel or shaped charges with a neurton source in the middle to assure detonation. BOOM!!

Those involved might poison themselves in the process, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for these morons.

Dr. Mordrid

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Originally posted by Gurm
or buy one from the underpaid guards at former soviet missile installations - Gurm

i thought the U.S. pays every year to be in control of all those installations.

[Dr Mordrid]

Unfortunately we got involved years after the USSR went belly up. At least a dozen of their suitcase bombs are missing and several hundred pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium.

We aren't much better. There are large quantities of missing enriched fissionalble materials here too. Enough to make several dozen efficient devices or several inefficient ones.

Neither optioin is particularly appealing.

Dr. Mordrid

[DuRaNgO]

<i>"As for the world...sometime you wonder what people are smoking to give them their delusions.

Jammrock"</i>

Maybe they should smoke a little and calm the fxck down :/ (the terrorists)

[Dilitante1]

A search on the web(

[Wombat]

That's one of the longest-running fakes there is. It's not real. As soon as I opened the link, I searched for "bucket." Boom. Same fake.

[Dr Mordrid]

hehehe....

The "bowls" only work if they're made of beryllium

A better source of material is "U.S. Nuclear Weapons, the Secret History" by Chuck Hansen.

Dr. Mordrid

[roadie]

this is ironic, but sad.....

tom clancy's book Sum Of All Fears is going to be a film this summer, and is about terrorists making a nuke and blowing it up in America

[[GDI]Raptor]

I would belive that the ex-soviet nuclear sutcasebombs would be very atractive to Bin Laden & Co