What is a Radiological Dispersion Device?
Terrorist use of an RDDoften called dirty nuke or dirty bombis considered far more likely than use of a nuclear explosive device. An RDD combines a conventional explosive devicesuch as a bombwith radioactive material. It is designed to scatter dangerous and sub-lethal amounts of radioactive material over a general area. Such RDDs appeal to terrorists because they require limited technical knowledge to build and deploy compared to a nuclear device. Also, the radioactive materials in RDDs are widely used in medicine, agriculture, industry, and research, and are easier to obtain than weapons grade uranium or plutonium.
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