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To: SandRat

I wonder if this would work for real? Not in terms of tiny explosions, but radiation poisoning.


2 posted on 09/26/2015 9:37:34 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

A Test on ISIS would work well.


3 posted on 09/26/2015 9:43:18 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Jonty30

Radioactive BBs could cause significant radiation poisoning.


5 posted on 09/26/2015 9:45:05 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Jonty30

Yes. I use radioactive radiation sources about that size in my radiography process (behind lead screens, of course)that could be used for weaponizing.


7 posted on 09/26/2015 9:48:00 AM PDT by batterycommander (- a little more rubble, a lot less trouble.)
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To: Jonty30

Radiation poisoning for sure.

As far as mini nukes are concerned, you need enough mass to reach critical mass to cause the atomic chain reaction.

Frankly I’m not sure what they’re trying to say here. Producing small radioactive pellets isn’t exactly a technological breakthrough.


9 posted on 09/26/2015 9:50:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Jonty30

Supposedly the KGB used to use Plutonium pellets (shot out of umbrella guns and other such curiosities) to assassinate defectors.


13 posted on 09/26/2015 9:56:43 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Exsurge, Domine, et judica causam tuam)
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To: Jonty30

Radiation and poisoning by heavy metals, yes. A critical mass is necessary for a nuclear reaction; and, a BB sized mass it way short of that.


21 posted on 09/26/2015 11:18:45 AM PDT by GingisK
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