Julius Raymond wrote: > By the way, a distinction should be made between those "suitcase nuclear > bombs" and so called "dirty bombs." The suitcase bombs do exist, but it > takes a helluva lot of special nuclear material (plutonium) to make one, and > that shit is not easy to come by. Plus, the mere handling of that type of > material would kill any would-be user from exposure pretty quickly if > they're not really, really careful.
Weapons-grade plutonium is not really that scarce-there is alot of it unaccounted for. When the Russian economy went down, not only did they get lax with their security, alot of physicists were out of work. There is plenty of missing plutonium believed to be on the black market and available for the right price. And considering all the suicide missions terrorists have done, personal safety isn't neccesarily a factor. A threat of this kind is, unfortunately, very real, and all the more reason to ban breeder reactors which create weapons-grade plutonium as a by product of electric generation. RR
