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hundreds of years. Experts maintain that a device that distributes radiation
could be used to great eect by terrorists. e most ecient way to achieve
this would be by constructing a dirty bomb—a conventional explosive sur-
rounded by nuclear material. e explosion could disperse radiation over a
wide area, killing people and contaminating property. is is the radiologi-
cal weapon mentioned above.
Whereas nuclear devices are dicult to build, radiological ones are not.
ere is a great deal of nuclear material that surrounds us. Consider the
x-ray equipment that doctors and hospitals operate; materials f ...