Comment on After 9/11 America was afraid of a Improvised Nuclear Something made out of used uranium. How would that work? Just get a piece of dynamite and some nuke dust and light the dynamite?

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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.

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