Sentences with phrase «dirty bombs»

What about the threat from dirty bombs?

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.

We read about terrorists targeting coal mines and building dirty bombs out of coal slag all the time.

The end of the world is no excuse for imprecise language, at least not for the four couples at the center of «It's a Disaster,» whose vegan - friendly brunch is interrupted by the detonation of some dirty bombs a few miles away.

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.

After multiple dirty bombs are detonated, spreading deadly toxic ash across Los Angeles, Brad inadvertently quarantines his wife, Lexi outside their new home by safely sealing himself inside.

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.

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.

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

Lochbaum worries that terrorists could hijack and use jets as nuclear missiles or take them apart for materials to build their own so - called dirty bombs.

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.

As with dirty bombs, the main thing keeping us safe from bioattack is the nature of the weapon itself.

Let's start with dirty bombs, a staple of media - fed fears.

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 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.

«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.

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

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.

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

It's the Institute for Disaster Mental Health's 10th annual conference, and this year's topic is «Radiological Readiness: Preparing for Dirty Bombs, Nuclear Disasters, and Other Radiation Emergencies.»

The former prime minister, who has welcomed Parliament's decision to back intervention, said Isis terrorists would use any weapons, including nuclear or dirty bombs, to cause the «maximum amount of destruction».

Thousands more protection suits for police dealing with dirty bombs have been ordered by the Home Office.

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

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.

Several American cities, including New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu, have response plans for terrorist attacks, including so - called «dirty bombs» containing radioactive material.

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.

While a dirty bomb isn't much deadlier than a comparable explosive without the radioactive element, it would create a biological hazard zone that could take years to clean up.

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).

Jose Padilla, now known as Abdullah al - Muhajir, the man accused of plotting to build a «dirty bomb,» had....

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.

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.

Also on the agenda at the summit will be protecting countries from cyber-attacks on their civil nuclear sites and preventing terrorists from obtaining the raw materials for a «dirty bomb».

Using a dirty bomb will become a priority.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to overhaul its licensing protocol for obtaining radioactive materials, citing a recent report that a fictitious company got a license for enough material for a dirty bomb.

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.

Security minister Lord West has announced that he is concerned that al - Qaeda terrorists could launch a radiological dirty bomb on London.

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

From hacking infrastructure to a detonating a nuclear «dirty bomb,» what are the most likely next terrorist attacks?

«We calculate we could easily detect 10 milligrams [of cobalt - 60] with a laser aimed within half a meter from an unshielded source, which is a fraction of what might go into a dirty bomb» said Joshua Isaacs, first author on the paper and a graduate student working with University of Maryland physics and engineering professors Phillip Sprangle and Howard Milchberg.

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.

The impact of a dirty bomb would be far less than that of a true nuclear device, and the radiation would probably not harm many people.

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.

The primary threat of a dirty bomb would be the economic fallout.

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

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.

But let's imagine a worst - case scenario: A particularly advanced terrorist group does manage to set off a dirty bomb, or a bioweapon begins to spread throughout the population.

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 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.

Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met, brings nuclear proliferation, «rogue states» and the terrorists» dream of a dirty bomb back to the first «ground zero»