Radiation Weapon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...weapon, a bomb or warhead that uses conventional chemical explosives to disperse radioactive material, sometimes called a "dirty bomb." Designed to produce radiation sickness in a military force or a civilian population instead of destroy a target...radioactive material encased in lead and surrounded by a high explosive. During the 1980s, Iraq developed and tested a radiation...