How real is the threat...

[Devonian]

(3 December 2014, 15:48)NorthernRaider Wrote: Dirty bombs are more a case of being economic weapons rather than people killers, they are designed to pollute valuable land with isotopes and make it cost a fortune to clear up.

Exactly my point.

(3 December 2014, 15:54)bigpaul Wrote: don't know much about this sort of thing, how would they get the isotope thingies into this country? would a Geiger counter pick it up?

Admittedly it would be easier to target Paris, or Rome, or Berlin, or Madrid etc as they can literally drive the material across the border from Syria or Iraqi and go overland into Europe. But at the same time, what's to stop them (other than their own capabilities!!!) of sailing a boat or motor cruiser across the channel and off loading onto a isolated south coast beach ......

But as NR says, whether or not they actually have the material we don't really know, but I would say they certainly seem to have the capability to engineer a dirty bomb.