Or would you argue, as I would, that it would destroy a sizable portion of the economy?
I've already stated in a previous post that a dirty bomb would likely cause tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of damage and could push our economy into a recession. But the main cause of that economic loss would be the public's overblown fear of radiation, which would cause huge evacuations and ruin property values in affected cities, rather than the relatively small real physical damage caused by conventional explosives and the radiation release.