Reply #38: Yup, Inhalation = guranteed lung cancer

[Xithras]

Personally, I disagree with the assessment that this bomb would be a "dud", because it would likely have blown uranium dust over a wide area (a few hundred feet or so), That doesn't sound like much, but imagine blowing uranium dust over a 100 foot diameter area in the middle of a crowded subway station, or at a major sporting event, or even on one of New Yorks busier street corners. How many people would inhale that dust?

Rather than killing a large number of people quickly, Padilla was willing to kill a large number of people slowly, over a number of years, as the side effects of lung cancer destroyed their bodies. Anybody who's known a lung cancer patient knows what a horrible way that is to die.