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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (5376)	10/15/2001 10:01:25 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

contaminating a bunch of financial centres or major food production centres - well that would be very devastating. Nah.. Michael... We were walking through downtown Hiroshima and Nagasaki (or what remained of them) within day after the bombs went off. Sure there will be hot spots, but give it a couple of heavy rainfalls and flush the sewers out and most of the radioactive dust would be washed away. Besides, the amount of radiological dust that could be kicked up from a "dirty bomb" would be relatively minor. Where Nukes become really nasty is when you have a surface burst and the fireball sucks up incredible quantities of dust and debris into mushroom cloud and heavily irradiates it. A "dirty bomb" would effectively be some high explosive providing a bursting charge to pulverize and disperse a pound or two of fissionable material, not a chain reaction where dirt becomes irradiated by some chain reaction. Would it be a nuisance? Hell yes... Would many people die? Hell no (unless you were right on top of it and had the material blown down into your lungs.).. Only if you stuck around and wallowed in the dust would you face some major problem. Hawk