This headline shouldn’t be any great surprise; it seems that if things like the Goiânia accident can happen, then there may exist implications for this Congressionally-postulated improvised dirty bomb. If you believe that the perpetrator has more imagination, there may exist nearly as nasty things to disperse without going for radioactive contaminants per se. I agree with someone else who pointed out the bomb’s likely purpose is short term area denial, economic damage, and intimidation of the public and not achieving outright destruction or carnage per se. Apparently the IDF built and tested some, concluding they’re mostly psychological weapons.
I don’t believe that any nation-state really wants to live in a world where such things happen, perhaps that’s some part of why it hasn’t been at play.
