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Originally posted by red-beard
.They didn't hold the plutonium together and the bomb started breaking up before a full chain reaction started.
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Good enough for terrorist-government work -- an efficient "clean" bomb would just knock down buildings and kill people quick; an inefficient "dirty" bomb will leave lots of radioactive fallout and kill lots of people slowly and make the locations it was detonated near uninhabitable for years.
A poorly detonating (or intentionally manufactured "dirty") nuclear bomb worries me a lot more than a clean, efficient nuke.