{"id":2093,"date":"2005-05-11T20:44:46","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T03:44:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-11T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T03:44:46","slug":"dirty-bomb-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/dirty-bomb-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Bomb, Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Prather saw my previous blog entry and forwarded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27750\">this column<\/a> on the same subject. Prather notes that while &#8220;The scare-monger battle cry is that terrorists are planning to use various weapons of mass destruction on each and everyone of you.&#8221; this is a fraud, because<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contrary to what the scare-mongers have told you, an RDD (radiological dispersal device) is in no sense a weapon of mass destruction. A few people \u2013 including the terrorist \u2013 might be killed by the high explosive. But essentially no one would be killed on the spot \u2013 or die later \u2013 from radiation.<\/p>\n<p>An RDD is not a nuke. It does not contain a critical mass of fissile material \u2013 such as uranium-235 or plutonium-239. Hence, no uncontrolled chain reaction \u2013 no nuclear explosion \u2013 is possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prather notes that the spread of radiation is of little significance due to its inability to cause instantaneous death, and the fact the it can be detected and cleaned. This is very similar to Easterbrook&#8217;s explanation of the inefficiency of biological weapons (see previous entry). In other words, difficult to spread in dangerous concentrations, relatively easy to quarantine and clean up afterwards. Really, conventional explosives are much more efficient killers and spreaders of what terrorists like &#8211; Shock and Awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Prather saw my previous blog entry and forwarded this column on the same subject. Prather notes that while &#8220;The scare-monger battle cry is that terrorists are planning to use various weapons of mass destruction on each and everyone of you.&#8221; this is a fraud, because Contrary to what the scare-mongers have told you, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}