Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.
- n. A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination
Examples
“A similar nonevent was the widely trumpeted plan by the al-Qaeda recruit Dhiren Barot to build a dirty bomb to be detonated either in the United Kingdom or the United States after 9/11.”
“Emblematic of the dangerous trade in radioactive materials suitable for a dirty bomb that were shipped out of the former Soviet Union was the truck loaded with some twenty tons of scrap metal that approached the busy Gisht-Kuprik border crossing on Uzbekistan’s border with Kazakhstan on March 30, 2000.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘dirty bomb’.
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Dis Wordz R Da Bomb
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Military Matters
words of mass (or minor) destruction
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Recent additions
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Military Words
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