re: The problem with a dirty bomb:

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Tom Brosz — 5/9/2004 4:48:32 AM (archived)

Logically, you are right. However, our modern culture has trained the average citizen to be so psychotically terrified of radiation, or microscopic quantities of toxins, that a terrorist could probably fill a bomb with old smoke detectors and nobody would dare live within a mile of the blast site for years.

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Ukrainian police seize 357 pounds of radioactive Cesium-137 - Tom Brosz - 5/7/2004 5:44:26 AM
- The problem with a dirty bomb: - David F Mayer - 5/9/2004 4:42:29 AM
  - re: The problem with a dirty bomb: - Tom Brosz - 5/9/2004 4:48:32 AM
    - Agreed - R.L. - 5/9/2004 6:00:26 PM
      - re: Agreed - Tom Brosz - 5/10/2004 12:57:11 AM
        
        "Ironically, nuclear power is probably the best short-term practical solution to reducing fossil-fuel CO2 contributions to the atmosphere." Wrong - David F Mayer - 5/11/2004 8:31:56 PM
        
        P.S. - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2004 9:13:43 PM
        
        The new luddites will attempt to shut down ANY source of electric power, or anything else either. - David F Mayer - 5/11/2004 10:11:40 PM
        
        Sea power - Tom Brosz - 5/11/2004 9:11:15 PM
        
        It will soon be cheaper to generate electric power in the Gulf of Mexico using Sea Solar Power and sell it in the Northeast than - David F Mayer - 5/11/2004 10:09:58 PM
- Slight misunderstanding here. - David F Mayer - 5/7/2004 8:01:49 AM
- SOMETING FISHY HERE - R.L. - 5/7/2004 8:01:14 AM
  - You and David make a good point. - Tom Brosz - 5/7/2004 1:48:02 PM
- case study of the release of a far smaller amount - R.L. - 5/7/2004 7:44:41 AM

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