Won't be long now

[Husar]

I take it the reason looked very good and lucid back in the pub last night, but mysteriously disappeared come the morning ?

No money for the pub, it may have been a better idea to post the one who you quoted.
Apart from that, should i ever happen to be in Helsinki, you could invite me to a pub.

[BigTex]

That's what I mean. A not-so-dirty bomb shouldn't be that hard to sneak in either.
Now if I understand correctly, a dirty bomb is one that explodes with normal explosives and scatters the area with radioactive material, I just wonder why they would do that if they could just about as easily build a real nuke causing a lot more destruction and fear?

A real nuke would take much more time and effort. Not to mention the quality of uranium needed. It would also require massive amounts of explosives to detonate.

A dirty bomb on the other hand just requires sprinkling the material amongst the explosives. It also doesnt require quality material, any radioactive material could be used, even speant fuel from a power plant. This is a very real threat. With the decay of the russian control over their nuclear stockpiles it's going to become more and more easier for these things to be attained by terrorists. Dirty bomb's are simpler and can cause far more damage then just a nuke. The half life on some of that material is more then a human lifespan.

This is very chilling thing indeed. Quite glad the Georgian officials managed to catch them.

[Watchman]

...say, don't those smoke detector alarm thingies have a radioactive component ? I know the one I dragged to recycling had ample warnings on the subject. Wonder where they store used ones ? I've heard a legend some clever guy in the US managed to buy a bunch of those for pennies and make a very small but primitive reactor out of the stuff (and exposed himself to some interesting amounts of rads on the side)...

[Vladimir]

That would be the ultimate irony as the radioactive element used is Americinum (however it's spelled).

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Watchman, it was a child genius, it was on the news a couple of years ago. I believe he did recieve a fairly fatal dosing. Not sure if it was worth first prize in the science fair. (He was American.)

My take: So far we have seen nothing on the order of 9/11. I think that Bin Laden and co weren't banking on the timid US going nutzo and destroying their power base.

Theory: Threat of a nuclear bomb is worth more to these people than setting one off.

[Watchman]

Theory: Threat of a nuclear bomb is worth more to these people than setting one off.

By far cheaper, and if the precedent is to judge by will be quite enough to make Washington do something stupid.

[BDC]

By far cheaper, and if the precedent is to judge by will be quite enough to make Washington do something stupid.

The French president said something along the lines that they'd nuke anyone who did something on the scale of the September 11th attacks to them.

[IrishArmenian]

Probably was selling it to that unlucky Armenian who threw a dud grenade at Bush in Tbilsi. Hopefully, this stuff isn't defective!