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How Radiological Weapons Work

2021
On May 8, 2002 Jose Padilla was arrested in Chicago under suspicion that Padilla was planning on constructing and setting off a radiological dispersal device (RDD)—colloquially known as a “dirty bomb.” While Padilla was not charged with this crime, he was tried and found guilty of conspiring to commit murder and to fund terrorism in August, 2007—and ...
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Health Effects of Radiological Weapons

2021
As noted in Chap. 3, one of the greatest radiation-related fears among the public is the fear that it will affect their health. People worry about radiation sickness, radiation burns, and death in the short term; they also worry about birth defects and cancer in the long term.
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Nuclear, radiological, and related weapons

2007
Abstract This chapter describes nuclear, radiological, and related weapons; their use, their proliferation, and adverse consequences of production and use. It describes international measures to control nuclear weapons, the prevention of nuclear terrorism, safeguarding nuclear power facilities and nuclear weapon stockpiles, ending ...
Patrice M. Sutton, Robert M. Gould
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New weapons of mass destruction; radiological weapons

1989
The possibility that new weapons of mass destruction might emerge was taken into account by the Commission for Conventional Armaments in 1948, when it defined such weapons as including “atomic explosive weapons, radioactive material weapons, lethal chemical and biological weapons, and any weapons developed in the future which have characteristics ...
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Prohibition of radiological weapons

1976
There are, in pr in c ipl e , two methods of conducting radiological warfare. One involves the use of so-called “dirty” nuclear weapons, that is, maximizing the radioactive effects of a nuclear weapon explosion so as to augment the immediate damage caused by blast, heat and initial radiation by increasing the radioactive fall-out which would present a ...
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Assessing Radiological Weapons: Attack Methods and Estimated Effects

2011
In the decade since September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack using radiological materials-usually referred to as a “dirty bomb,” but actually encompassing other means of dispersal-has sometimes seemed inevitable. But terrorists have not yet carried out such an attack.
Smith Michelle M., Ferguson Charles D.
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Radiological-weapons threats: case studies from the extreme right

The Nonproliferation Review, 2020
Violence by far-right extremists has risen globally and domestically in recent years. While most media and academic attention has focused on mass shootings and other deadly conventional attacks, fa...
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Weapons of mass destruction: radiological, biological and chemical weapons

2018
Key themes • Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) are treated as distinct from ‘conventional’ weapons, and their stockpiling and use are particularly controversial. • WMDs are divided into four general types: radiological, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
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Engineering living therapeutics with synthetic biology

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021
Andres Cubillos-Ruiz, Tingxi Guo, Anna Sokolovska   +2 more
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Antioxidants as a Bio-shield Against Radiological Weapons

2013
There are two types of radiological weapon, “dirty bomb,” and nuclear weapon (atom bomb). A dirty bomb can be made from one or more commercially available radioactive isotopes and it can be detonated using a conventional explosive, whereas an atom bomb consists of fissionable element, and it requires complex procedures for detonation.
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