>Sorry, this is so absurd it is pitiful.
Well Vauss, I truly hope that if this bomb threat is real and this dirty bomb is destined to go off in America, that it goes off just outside your door and stays far away from less obnoxious people, specifically me.
Incidentally, would you mind pointing me to exactly what I said in this thread that you responded to here?
I responded to your comment about the idea that thousands of people will die and that the place will be uninhabitable. You don't know what you are talking about. What is interesting is that during the 1970's and 1980's I used to have this conversation with anti-nuclear power people all the time. I remember this one guy in technology review, a PHD, he said, who had worked on the bomb back in the 40's. He made the idiotic claim that radiation levels 10 times normal background would result in millions of deaths and be a catastrophe. When I pointed out studies in journals such as Radiation Biology (name could be off, its been awhile) on places in Brazil with 10 times normal background (about 2 rem a year), which showed no increase in cancer deaths whatsoever, he wrote me a somewhat sputtering apology.
To reiterate: Anyone who thinks a radiological bomb, i.e., a bomb with explosives at its core and nuclear waste around it, is somehow going to cause massive casualties from radiation exposure and make an area uninhabitable, does not know what they are talking about. Do the research.