Sentences with phrase «threat of dirty bombs»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.