How Difficult is it to Build a Dirty Bomb?
Not very. Conventional explosives such as dynamite are easy to prepare and detonate. The difficulty of exploding a radiological device is in obtaining the radioactive material. A diagram of a dirty bomb was found in a Taliban or al Qaeda installation in Afghanistan in late 2001, according to sources cited by The Post. But a well placed U.S. source told The Post that such diagrams and documents are available from public sources, including the Internet. The source said some designs were so inadequate and primitive that they most likely would not work. (Post coverage: U.S.
