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The looming counterattack on Kherson, 'dirty bomb' fears & the energy crisis in Germany's industrial heartlands

Ukraine: The Latest

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Is There a Threshold for the Size of a Dirty Bomb?

Dom, David and Hamish respond to a listener's question. Is there a threshold for the size of a dirty bomb? What is required to be significant in government eyes? Dom: "I think dirty bombs are a bit of an asthma. And probably more in the James Bond and fiction terabooks than actual reality" I don't know of any successful dirty bomb but you could argue that the plutonium attack that killed Lipvenenko back in 2006 could be a dirty bomb," says David. 'You would actually need a heck of a lot of radioactive material to have any impact with a dirty bomb,' he adds. The only false flag that really happened in Syria was the Duma chemical attack

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