Reply #28: A dirty bomb is not a nuclear bomb

[Zodiak]

nor does it do much more damage than a regular bomb. It is really just a clean-up problem.

Surely a dirty bomb attack in a US city this is not what was meant from "nuclear retaliation" in the OP since it was the ships that were gathering the Iodine.

I do not buy the fear of the "dirty bomb" any more than I buy the fear that I am more likely to be killed by a terrorist than struck by lightning. Smoke and mirrors all designed to make one fear.

Fear is anathema to freedom-loving people.


Iranian capabilities rely on conventional weapons. They also have a considerable army of conventional weapons potentially strapped to people, but they are still conventional weapons. They can also sink a few of our ships, which are ill-equipped to deal with Russian-built missiles.

ON EDIT: whoops, not the ships collecting Iodine...I see, but a suggestion from a Kossack. Still, the last thing we need to be concerned with is a dirty bomb. What a waste of fissile material on Iran's part. Better to go with a bomb that can only be detected by one method rather than two.