Posted on 02/17/2016 9:56:01 AM PST by BeadCounter
They'll expose and harm more of their own with the stuff than they will any target and they'll need to get moving on a plan with that half-life.
“So no Big Deal is what your saying?”
Not really, you can hurt people if you have a lot of it. I mean that it’s not considered WMD, like mustard gas, sarin or anthrax.
Governments don’t stockpile it for use in war. A terrorist could use it on an improvised level.
A Ir-192 source can and has been used a murder weapon, they have also been involved in some horrible accidental exposures. All that’s needed is to have the unshielded source placed near to the victims for an extended time. Radiation can not be detected by our senses and the victim knows nothing until they are sick with radiation poisoning and then it’s usually to late.
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