CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Basically. The uranium isn’t to make the explosion larger, the explosion is to disperse the radioactive material over a large area quickly. The fear is you’d make, like, metro Boston uninhabitable for a generation and give a million people cancer.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’d kinda work, but not so well with uranium itself.
(A bunch of other atomic age materials like plutonium are radioactivley deadlier.)
The real goal of terrorism is to make people afraid, so they either change behavior or exert political pressure on their government to change behaviour. It doesn’t often work, often backfires, and when it does on occssion work we tend to stop calling the guys who set the bombs as terrorists.