[Wonder Warthog]

"I'm a radiologist involved in disaster planning for my local hospitals. I recently spoke to an FBI agent specializing in weapons of mass destruction. They are worried sick about the "dirty bomb." He thinks this is much more likely than a smallpox epidemic or true nuclear detonation."

And also WAY less likekly to do significant damage than either said epidemic or nuclear detonation. Sure, it will contaminate a small area pretty badly, and scare the **** out of a lot of people, but the conventional explosive simply cannot spread the rad-waste broadly enough to cause major loss of life.

[ccmay]

Sure, it will contaminate a small area pretty badly, and scare the **** out of a lot of people, but the conventional explosive simply cannot spread the rad-waste broadly enough to cause major loss of life.

You are correct. However, the psychological effect is likely to be an order of magnitude more shocking than 9/11.

-ccm