[The Great RJ]

While the materials found could have been used to build bombs of a sort they do not represent a true terrorist dirty bomb. The uranium and thorium while radioactive are not as dangerous as gamma sources like Cobalt-60 that could be lethal in small doses especially if widely spread by an explosive device.

A BBC produced TV movie The Dirty War gives a more realistic picture of a dirty bomb attack set in central London. The terrorists used highly radioactive isotopes in powder form and dispersed them with suicide truck bombs.

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They wouldn’t get a nuclear explosion if they don’t build it a certain way?