Sentence examples for radiological bomb from inspiring English sources
The government says he was planning to detonate a radiological bomb in America.
Such events raise concerns that terrorists could have obtained materials for a radiological bomb and exposed nearby residents to radioactive contamination.
But some experts have said terrorists might try to make a so-called radiological bomb by combining conventional explosives with radioactive material like spent nuclear fuel.
American authorities say he plotted with operatives of Al Qaeda overseas to detonate a "dirty" radiological bomb in the United States.
A cruder but simpler way to use radioactive materials as a weapon would be to construct a radiological bomb, sometimes called a dirty bomb.
But the memorandum then lists among Abu Zubaydah's revelations the identification of Mr. Mohammed and of an alleged radiological bomb plot by Jose Padilla, the American Qaeda associate.
And on Monday Mr. Ashcroft, Bobby Three Sticks and Paul "Bomb Iraq" Wolfowitz breathlessly told the nation that they had thwarted a scary radiological bombing plot.
"If we feel we can constrain stalkers," he added, "then I think we can also constrain people who want to build radiological bombs".
After questioning a 20-year old Milwaukee man, federal law-enforcement officials said that a threat posted on the Internet last week about plans to detonate radiological bombs at football stadiums on Sunday was a hoax.
For instance, the government recently sent teams of scientists with hidden radiation detectors to check major American cities for signs that terrorists might be preparing to detonate radiological bombs.
The arrest of the man, Jose Padilla, raised the possibility that some dispersed and hidden terrorist command is still actively trying to strike the United States, and that it was focused as recently as last month on some of the most fear-inspiring weapons, like radiological bombs -- literally, bundles of dynamite or other explosives strapped to containers of radioactive material.
