Sentences with phrase «dirty bomb in»

In between the talk of Dirty Bomb in the Splash Damage section was this sentence:

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.

But with lawmakers and government agencies ratcheting up the rhetoric about dirty bombs in their lobbying for more funding, the average citizen can hardly be blamed for considering dirty bombs a grave threat — a perfect example of well - intentioned efforts that would amplify, not dampen, the impact of a terrorist attack.

The FBI and Darwyn move to intercept the cell's plans to detonate a pair of nuclear dirty bombs in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, but their victory is overshadowed by a pair of tragedies for Darwyn.

Not exact matches

If detonated in a city center or busy port, the aftermath of a dirty bomb would cost billions, shut down an area, and subject an unlucky few to the agonizing complications of having been exposed to radiation.

A dirty bomb, or a bomb that propels radioactive materials in the air with help from a conventional explosive charge, requires radioactive material that can only be obtained via license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

The two experiences differ in detail (swap in global warming and dirty bombs for acid rain and Soviet warheads) but each was labelled a hopeless mess.

Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito dropped an n - bomb in a fit of rage at a bar called Dirty Blondes in Fort...

A peaceful program in a less developed country is assumed to mean «dirty bombs» and easy transition...

Gillibrand also asked for an extra $ 20 million in funding, which she thinks is necessary to improve detection of nuclear materials and prevent a dirty bomb from being detonated.

«For example, I am very worried about a dirty bomb going off somewhere in our state or in our country.

Pyongyang could still use a «dirty «nuclear bomb by installing raw nuclear material in short range missiles aimed at Seoul.

He has been lobbing verbal bombs at Cuomo from the sidelines for years now, going so far as to call him the «dirtiest, nastiest political player out there» back in 2010.

As U.S. attorney, Hartunian» office convicted Glendon Scott Crawford of Saratoga County, now the first person in the United States guilty of trying to produce or use a radiological dispersal device, a 2004 law passed to keep terrorists from using a dirty bomb.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Bacterial «dirty bomb» nukes pancreatic cancer»

Now researchers from the University of Maryland have proposed a new technique to remotely detect the radioactive materials in dirty bombs or other sources.

Authorities claimed that Barot had researched the production of «dirty bombs,» and planned to detonate them in New York City, Washington DC, and other cities.

«Dirty bombs» strapped to listeria bacteria cleared tumours in mice with the most lethal human cancer

Authorities could use this technique to retrace where a dirty bomb was stored before detonation to figure out who built it, says Eric Lukosi, a nuclear engineer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who was not involved in the work.

«It is likely that very few Americans will be killed directly, suffer radiation sickness, or even have a measurably increased risk for cancer from an attack,» Peter D. Zimmerman and Cheryl Loeb write in «Dirty Bombs: The Threat Revisited,» a report published by the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University.

A much better way to prevent a nuclear or dirty - bomb terrorist attack is to keep radioactive ingredients from getting inside the nation's borders in the first place, and here physics is on our side.

With these, the technique should work in the event of a large «dirty bomb» attack or other national security incident, Hayes says.

«The radioactivity released by dirty bombs is not life threatening,» says Angelo Acquista, former medical director of the Office of Emergency Management in New York City and author of The Survival Guide: What to Do in a Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Emergency.

Writing in MIT's Technology Review, Richard Muller, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, calculated the radiation exposure — measured in a unit known as the rem — that city residents would receive from a practical dirty bomb.

In order to contaminate a large area with enough radioactive material to pose a major health hazard, the dirty bomb would have to be packed with so much cobalt 60 (on the order of a few ounces in this case) that the terrorists would die of radiation poisoning within minutes of exposure to their own weapoIn order to contaminate a large area with enough radioactive material to pose a major health hazard, the dirty bomb would have to be packed with so much cobalt 60 (on the order of a few ounces in this case) that the terrorists would die of radiation poisoning within minutes of exposure to their own weapoin this case) that the terrorists would die of radiation poisoning within minutes of exposure to their own weapon.

A practical dirty bomb's main effects would be from fear, not radiation, with both the Department of Homeland Security and the American Institute of Physics predicting few deaths from cancer or radiation poisoning, even in densely populated areas.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

The physicists who invented the nuclear bomb worked out of Los Alamos in New Mexico, but the people who did the dirty work of making the bombs were in Hanford, Washington.

But to a woman with a mass in her breast and a dying father, the word «funeral» works like a dirty bomb, exploding into fragments that lodge deep in the brain.

Right at Your Door (R for disturbing violence and pervasive profanity) Apocalyptic adventure about the struggle to survive in Los Angeles after the declaration of martial law due to the detonation by terrorists of several dirty bombs.

When a suicidal Mel Gibson jumps from a building handcuffed to a guy he's supposed to talk out of jumping, or when Danny Glover's life is threatened by a bomb concealed in the toilet plumbing, somehow the «Lethal Weapon» crew has already moved beyond «Dirty Harry.»

Once the party realizes that the apocalypse is nigh — dirty bombs have been dropped in cities all over the nation, including the city center just 12 miles from their very brunch — those elements boil down to their most undiluted.

There are new details on the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, and the more it gets fleshed out, the more of a dirty bomb it becomes in the segment.

According to an Interim Report from Leyou Technologies, who own Warframe developer Digital Extremes and Dirty Bomb / Gears of War 4 developer Splash Damage, a new Third - Person Survival Horror Shooter is in development at Splash Damage for release in 2018.

The free - to - play Dirty Bomb is an asymmetrical team - based shooter where squads of players do battle in London.

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

Game modes like Domination, Capture the Flag, Last Man Standing (basically PUBG) and Assault (staged objectives like in Enemy Territory, Dirty Bomb, CoD: WW2 War mode, Battlefield 1 Operations) were introduced to multiplayer gamers by UT.

With a high quality and free - to - play focused product strategy, Leyou has become a leading player in the global free - to - play online multiplayer games market, and released some of world's most popular titles such as Warframe and Dirty Bomb.

Free and genuinely fun releases are few and far between in the current gaming landscape, but Dirty Bomb definitely fits that bill.

Based in a post-apocalyptic London, Dirty Bomb places you in the shoes of a mercenary, fighting with your team of other mercenaries in a slugfest multiplayer experience.

Likewise, his monochromatic paintings adorned with gobs of dirty, chewed gum, which reference German cities bombed in World War II, are simultaneously melancholic and comically absurd, referencing the tradition of expressionist painting through the mundane detritus of urban life.

What happened in the fifties and sixties is that instead of pursuing a cheap safe nuclear option we chose to pursue dirty inefficient light water reactors because the uranium fuel cycle produces bomb grade materials

If 1 million of them were into planting dirty nuclear bombs in sports stadiums and railroad tunnels, it might be interesting.

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.