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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Rock_nj who wrote (600757)8/6/2004 12:56:42 PM
From: ferrgus  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Re: the dirty bomb thing... I used to work for a DOE radiological cleanup program, so I know first-hand how panicked people can get when they hear that there's (gasp) RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION in their area. The levels we were dealing with were minuscule, and they would have to have been ingested to do any damage, but people got seriously freaked out when they heard that their property might have trace amounts of thorium, etc. on it.

As such, I can easily see how the detonation of a radioactive "dirty bomb" could throw a city into a total panic -- even if it was just a tiny amount of radiological material that was involved.
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