News from Al-Madinah: Despite Ukraine’s denials, Russia has warned that it is planning to use the so-called “dirty bomb.”
In a joint statement released on Sunday, the United States, Britain, and France accused Russia of making a false assertion that Ukraine intended to deploy the weapon.
On Sunday, Russian Defense Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that Ukraine is preparing to “provoke” using a radiological apparatus, a claim that he strongly rejected US, British and Ukrainians, amid escalating tensions while Moscow is struggling to stop Ukrainian progress in the south.
The bomb’s nature.
The dirty bomb is a weapon that disperses radioactive nuclear waste; nonetheless, it is not a nuclear weapon.
The bomb can reveal significant radioactive pollution in vast areas, as defined by science.
The bomb combines radioactive elements with conventional explosives like dynamite.
According to the US Nuclear Regulatory Council, “most RDD devices,” sometimes known as “dirty bombs,” won’t produce enough radiation to kill humans or seriously illen them.
However, radioactive materials won’t be as dangerous to people as conventional bombs.
The broad areas that were affected by the dirty bomb require costly cleaning operations to be removed.
Instead of “a mass annihilation,” the council refers to the “dirty bomb” as a “comprehensive turbulence.”
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Three options
The military analyst Constantine Sivkov of “Russia Today” said that the “dirty bomb” initially had a radioactive shell with a repelling charge and carried radioactive components or chemical munitions.
The second option is to use a long-range missile system to strike the nuclear power plant waste, which causes the shell to explode and disperse radioactive material over a wide area.
This expert suggests distributing a nuclear substance via aircraft as the third alternative. However, because the plane can be dropped over the lands that the party using these types of bombs controls, this strategy is not appropriate for provocation.
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What is the “dirty bomb” about which Russia has issued a caution?
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