From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxk!houxj!wapd Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: "Re: Cosmos A-Bomb" Article-I.D.: houxj.201 Posted: Thu Jan 20 13:29:13 1983 Received: Sat Jan 22 07:00:42 1983 References: iheds.197 Another non-atom-bomb way to use radioactive material is to simply disperse it using a regular (conventional, TNT, whatever) bomb. I believe that a threat of this kind was received a few years ago by police in a large northeastern city (my memory says Boston, but who knows ?). The threat was : "I have stolen 10 pounds of uranium, a few grams at a time, from a power plant. If I am not given XXX dollars, I will attach it to 100 pounds of dynamite and blow it up in the middle of Boston (?)". This is essentially equivalent to the "poison" approach, but requires even less subtlety. Dynamite is apparently easy enough to come by, and the radioactive material could be ore or waste or low-grade processed material. Bill Dietrich houxj!wapd