----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:48 AM Subject: Re: unguarded Iraqi nuclear facilities
> --- "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know more about this? If true, this > > means that terrorists > > in Iraq have or had relatively easy access to > > materials for building a > > `radiological' or `dirty' bomb. > > Everyone willing to spend a few million bucks buying > _smoke detectors_ has the capacity to build a dirty > bomb - it is, worryingly, not all that hard. > What exactly do you mean about it being easy? The amount of Americium in a smoke detector is quite small. (Though there was more in older detectors.) And acquiring enough to make a "practical" dirty bomb would require an ungodly number of manual labor man hours. The same amount of money would likely be spent more effectively on the black market, where you can get anything you want because the black market is capitalism unleashed.<G> xponent Rob A Hospital Maru rob
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