![]() ![]() ![]() Soviet-era facilities in the Caucasus had once had “ample supplies of caesium, strontium and other related radiological materials”. Giragosian said that while there had been significant efforts in Russia and Ukraine to dispose of radioactive materials left over from the former Soviet Union, safely disposing of such material in the Caucasus had been “a lower priority”. Richard Giragosian, founding director of the Regional Studies Centre, an independent think-tank in Yerevan, Armenia, said in a 2016 op-ed for Al Jazeera that following the Septemattacks on the United States by al-Qaeda, fears multiplied in the West of the dangers posed by radiological “dirty” bombs. “A dirty bomb is really easy to make,” said Scott Roecker, vice president for the nuclear materials security programme at The Nuclear Threat Initiative, a non-profit organisation based in Washington. The material used in a dirty bomb could be obtained from radioactive sources used in medicine and industry or from research facilities. The amount of radioactive material dispersed, while dangerous, is not necessarily lethal. They are much easier and cheaper to build than a nuclear device and also far less dangerous.ĭirty bombs use conventional explosives, such as dynamite, placed alongside radioactive material, which is then flung outward by the force of the blast. Technically known as radiological dispersal devices, dirty bombs are relatively primitive, imprecise weapons. ![]() Here’s a look at what experts mean by the term “dirty bomb”: How does a dirty bomb work? Investigators also found nuclear material capable of being used in a dirty bomb in an abandoned factory in Chechnya. Western countries have dismissed Moscow’s claim as “transparently false”.Īlthough no successful dirty bomb attack has ever been recorded, two failed attempts to detonate such a device were reported in the southern Russian province of Chechnya more than 20 years ago. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 West warns Russia against using dirty bomb pretext in Ukraine list 2 of 4 False flag? Russia says Ukraine plans to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ list 3 of 4 New terror threat in the Caucasus list 4 of 4 US hosts nuclear summit with eye on nightmare scenario end of list ![]()
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