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Speaker 1: dirty bombs. Now, there's been this incredible fear that terrorists

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Speaker 1: will obtain material to build a dirty bomb. What exactly

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Speaker 1: is a dirty bomb and what can it do? Dirty

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Speaker 1: bomb is a credible fear because it's possible that any

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Speaker 1: small group of a terrorists could build one. The materials

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Speaker 1: are available on the dark market. The black market. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, you can use any kind of explosive plus

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Speaker 1: any kind of radioactive isotope, and isotopes have been used

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Speaker 1: in medical devices, cancer treatment devices. You can get a

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Speaker 1: high dose radiation like season one seven or cobalt sixty

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Speaker 1: out of a medical device that's used to treat camps.

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Speaker 1: And what size would it be, James, the size of

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Speaker 1: a quarter or bigger than that. You can put it

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Speaker 1: in a briefcase. I'm sure the bigger it is, the

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Speaker 1: better it is. But but the spent material would be

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Speaker 1: how big spent material? Uh? Can put it in a

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Speaker 1: court jar? You know, that's a big that's a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot. Uh. If you have one the size

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Speaker 1: of a quarter, it can be quite dangerous to be around. Know,

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Speaker 1: you can die from being close to it. But the

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Speaker 1: trouble is a bomb explodes, It makes into a wide

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Speaker 1: range thing microscopic particles, and the trouble is the danger

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Speaker 1: from it. The effect of it is reduced as it expands.

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Speaker 1: In other words, dirty bomb is most dangerous to the

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Speaker 1: guys who plant it and the guys who build it.

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Speaker 1: Once you explode it, you've made it un dangerous. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing as far as we're concerned. The

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Speaker 1: danger of the dirty bomb is not necessarily the explosions,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily the radiation that it spreads. It's all psychological,

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Speaker 1: and the psychology of the dirty bomb is very powerful.

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Speaker 1: People don't want to be around radiation because you can't

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Speaker 1: see it. You can't taste it smell it well, would it?

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Speaker 1: Would it be? Who? Now, there's not going to be

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Speaker 1: much physical damage with with a bomb like that, I assume, right,

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Speaker 1: No more than with any other bomb. So it could

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Speaker 1: be in a car, it could be in a van,

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Speaker 1: they could blow that up. But is to put it

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Speaker 1: on top of a building where it's nothing but blue sky,

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Speaker 1: so it'll spread out and it will be measurable, you know,

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Speaker 1: for several miles. What if your government and you don't

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Speaker 1: tell people it was a dirty bomb? What happens? Probably nothing, exactly,

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Speaker 1: it's you've got to tell people it's a dirty bomb

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Speaker 1: for the psychology, and then they panic, Yes, exactly. It

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Speaker 1: might be better if if what you say is true.

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Speaker 1: And I have no reason to doubt that that. If

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Speaker 1: a dirty bomb is exploded, we just call it a bomb,

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Speaker 1: and you know, whatever happens happens, and it appears. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to have that kind of people dying from

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Speaker 1: radiation poisoning, are we? You're not. You know, people will

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Speaker 1: die trying to scramble get away. You're not. No one's

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Speaker 1: going to even get sick immediately from it, unless you're

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Speaker 1: standing right under it, of course, in which case the

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Speaker 1: bomb itself is more dangerous than the radiation it contains.

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Speaker 1: But the basic fact is the the bomb, the concept

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Speaker 1: of the bomb uh causes the radiation source to be

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Speaker 1: divided into very small particles and spread out over a

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Speaker 1: wide area. It becomes part of the background radiation, the

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Speaker 1: background radiation from it having exploded, maybe bigger than it

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Speaker 1: was before it exploded, but it's still not immediately dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the problem is people aren't going to want

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Speaker 1: to live in a city that's been contaminated with radiation

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Speaker 1: just because of the word radiation, and it's going to

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Speaker 1: be extremely spensive to clean it off the streets and

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Speaker 1: the sides of buildings and so on. But it has

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Speaker 1: you have to go to that trouble before people are

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Speaker 1: calmed down about the radiation. They're seeing that problem. For example,

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Speaker 1: in Fukushima. You know, they have had sence off a

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Speaker 1: you know, hundreds of square miles of Japan because no

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Speaker 1: one wants to live there because there's radiation there. It

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Speaker 1: was a fallout from the meltdown of these reactors. That's

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Speaker 1: not to say that it's going to kill people that

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not that kind of radiation. It's not

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Speaker 1: that intense or radiation. It may cause cancer, but like

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Speaker 1: I say, stay out of the sun causes a lot

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