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Dirty Bomb
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dirty bomb,
an explosive device that disperses radioactive material over a wide area, contaminating land, buildings, and people. Its purpose is to cause fear and to make an area unusable for a long time.
Dirty Bomb
A conventional bomb—i.e., explosive delivery device—which would contain high-level radioactive waste or subnuclear weapons-grade material and theoretically contaminate a wide area with radioactivity
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This will come three years after the law was passed, and six years after the Padilla case made officials aware that dirty bombs were on al-Qaida's menu.
Panic attack: public still in the dark when it comes to dirty bomb ... by Magnuson, Stew / National Defense
Last night, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "We are talking about attacks on crowded public places, we are talking about the use, potentially, of dirty bombs.
Dirty bomb warning to shoppers by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Gary Moody, an inmate at HMP Whitemoor, is accused of assaulting Dhiren Barot, the leader of a British-based terrorist cell that plotted to murder thousands of people with dirty bombs.
Prisoner charged with attacking terrorist faces court by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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