Originally Posted By: capsu78
...and while the "boomy" bombs are on the risk assessment grid, the dirty bomb scenario might still be easier to pull off, offeres up a similar amount of terror payback and fits in better with the current strategies of threat.
The scenario that takes place in "Dirty War", a 2004 HBO movie from a British production company, is hard to find fault with in terms of realistic implications of a dirty bomb being detonated in most any urban area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War_(film)

It should be mandatory viewing for first responders, and certainly opens my eyes to what my spouse might get caught up in working downtown in her "known terrorist targeted" highrise.

Also available on Netflix:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Dirty_War/70023523?trkid=2361637#height1834

Even the reviews consider it a worthwhile view.



I got that on Netflix a month ago, it was very good. (If anyone finds white dog hairs in their Netflix DVD, you can thank my Samoyed).

A dirty bomb is much more plausible and a situation where I can see having the option to evacuate and staying away until I trust the government assessment of the radioactivity risk.

As with other invisible threats such as anthrax, it would be disconcerting to rely on the government for risk-assesment. I don't even trust the tap water here (the quality of which has recently reemerged as a question mark).