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Dirty bomb

A makeshift nuclear device which is created from radioactive nuclear waste material. While not a nuclear blast, an explosion of a dirty bomb causes localised radioactive contamination as the nuclear waste material is carried into the atmosphere where it is dispersed by the wind.

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