| Indeed, I'd say we all know that radiation is a real | | | | nation you can't just move the entire government |
| problem for the human biosystem, and this is why it | | | | somewhere else right away. Yes, it will cost millions if |
| is so carefully used in modern medicine and why the | | | | not billions of dollars to scrub the area, wash it down, |
| world is so worried about a terrorist threat or rogue | | | | and then clean up, or move the government, people, |
| nation state with nuclear weapons. Now then, it has | | | | businesses, etc. to another location. If people decide |
| been said and clearly stated by intelligence agencies | | | | to stay there is a biological issue that we need to |
| around that world that Al Qaeda, and its followers | | | | also address. Obviously pregnant mothers should not |
| are still attempting to get nuclear material. Material | | | | live in the city, or any woman of childbearing years or |
| such as cesium, plutonium, or uranium whether it is | | | | younger. |
| enriched or not, to be used as a dirty bomb. | | | | Also, young males should not live in such a city |
| Believe it or not getting a hold of such material is not | | | | because it will also affect their reproductive organs. |
| as difficult as it sounds, and we also know that even | | | | We know that in areas with radiation there are many |
| Al Qaeda has made this threat, and we should thus, | | | | anomalies in newborns of any species that remains. It |
| consider the threat to be real and whereas, most of | | | | happened in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and it also |
| the discussion on this topic are along these lines, | | | | happened in Chernobyl. This is something we need to |
| instead of prevention. We know it is inevitable that | | | | think about depending on the level and spread of |
| someday a terrorist organization or a proxy terrorist | | | | radiation. Along with; how much has gotten into the |
| organization will get a hold of nuclear material and we | | | | groundwater, and these are things we must be |
| will have a dirty bomb scenario on our hands in some | | | | thinking about. |
| major populated cities somewhere in the world. | | | | Will the radiation cause spontaneous evolution? There |
| Now for the biology issues; | | | | will be many birth defects, we know this to be a |
| Just because a dirty bomb has gone off, doesn't | | | | fact, and specifically there will be children born with |
| mean the people that live there can automatically | | | | unfortunate diseases. And yes there will be some |
| leave, some people will have no place to go especially | | | | evolution, but probably not much compared to the |
| in a very large city. You cannot just evacuate a giant | | | | damage that is done to the human bio-system of |
| city that is highly populated. Yes, it has been done | | | | those that remain, or the children born afterwards. |
| before, but if we do that we will surely find more | | | | Luckily, it's not as bad as it would seem from our |
| dirty bombs being used. In other words, we can't let | | | | past experiences. Therefore, we should be discussing |
| this level of terrorism stop us from going about our | | | | these things along with ways to prevent a dirty |
| daily lives. | | | | bomb or radioactive material getting into the hands |
| If a dirty bomb goes off in a capital city in some | | | | of terrorists. Please be thinking here. |