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Panic attack: public still in the dark when it comes to dirty bomb threat.(Chem-Bio Defense)(radiological dispersal device)

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When convicted terrorist Jose Padilla showed up at the Chicago airport in May 2002 allegedly with plans to carry out a dirty bomb attack, few people had ever heard of such a weapon.

The federal government since then has taken steps to prevent the use of a radiological dispersal device, or RDD--the technical term of a dirty bomb--but there are still widespread misunderstandings of what these weapons do.

The goal of the device is to create fear--and as long as this lack of knowledge persists--it will remain an effective weapon of "terror," experts have said.

As soon as media hear that there has been a dirty bomb attack, the public "will ...

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