This Kind of Scenario Could Become a Reality in the Not Too Distant Future

By Levi, Michael A.

Book Id: WPLBN0000184725
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	This Kind of Scenario Could Become a Reality in the Not Too Distant Future
Author:	Levi, Michael A.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
Collections:	Government Library Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt: Become a grim necessity. The components and know-how needed to build a dirty bomb are available, and there are fanatics out there who just might do the deed. The arrest earlier this year of Al Qaeda sympathizer Jose Padilla (Abdullah al Muhajir) on suspicion of plotting to construct and set off a dirty bomb gives an indication of the interest in building such a device. A radiological weapon, or dirty bomb, is typically a crude device comprising conventional explosives, such as TNT or a fuel oil/fertilizer mixture, laced with highly radioactive materials. The explosives generate a pulse of heat that vaporizes or aerosolizes radioactive material and propels it across a wide area.

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