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By Backgrounder, Geostrategy-Direct.com

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., Al Qaida and other jihadists have threatened to use a so-called “dirty” bomb.

Also know as a radiological dispersion device (RDD), the dirty bomb uses conventional explosives along with radioactive material.

Israel recently conducted a series of tests to find out just what devastation such an attack might unleash.

In conjunction with the Dimona nuclear reactor’s “Green Field” project, which began in 2010, Israel carried out detonations in the desert and at the closed Dimona facility and found that high-level radiation was measured at the center of the detonations and low levels of radiation particles were carried by the wind.

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