From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!bcw Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: "Re: Cosmos A-Bomb" Article-I.D.: duke.2934 Posted: Fri Jan 21 19:14:51 1983 Received: Sat Jan 22 05:41:21 1983 References: hplabsb.1298,iheds.197 From: Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University Re: Cosmos A-Bomb Whether radioactive substances can be used by terrorists actually has very little to do with how easy such substances are to disperse and so forth. A great many people in this country (and probably elsewhere) are sufficiently disturbed by the "radioactive" label that that alone would be sufficient for widespread panic, which is of course what the terrorist is aiming at anyway... Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University