Sentences with phrase «big dirty bomb»

An act of terrorism at a nuclear power plant would be analogous to a big dirty bomb, says Allison.

Not exact matches

For decades, a «dirty bomb in a suitcase» has been a looming fear of intelligence communities, and is one of the big reasons for nuclear containment and nonproliferation.

A dirty bomb — radioactive material by a conventional explosive — «is much less of a problem to detonate and if successful would render a large swath of a big city uninhabitable for years,» he says.

On the other hand, the danger of big, headline - grabbing threats has been ameliorated to a limited extent — but these threats, like dirty bombs or bioterrorism, have always been inherently unlikely to come to pass on anything like the apocalyptic scale feared by some.

... on the threat of dirty bombs: There are problems there, but they are tiny compared with the big missile stockpiles.

Nexon's Dirty Bomb is set to release the biggest update in the history of the free - to - play shooter on October 28th.

Dirty bombs make big messes, and may require massive relocations, as at Chernobyl, but they pale by comparison to the primary threat that Allison has written about in Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a major city.