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
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