Answer 1:
As you probably know, cesium is one of the
naturally occurring elements. Normally cesium is
stable, but radioactive isotopes of cesium are
created during nuclear fission of uranium in
either nuclear power plants or nuclear
weapons. There has been talk recently that
radioactive materials, like cesium 137, could be
used in a "dirty" bomb which is a conventional
bomb that is designed to spread radioactive
materials upon exploding. Although making a dirty
bomb is relatively straightforward, making one
that would cause a lot of harm is more difficult
so the main use of a crude dirty bomb would be to
scare people more than a regular bomb
would.
I'm sure the military and others have
done experiments with cesium to see what it does
and how it can be used but I'm not familiar with
anything specific that the military has done with
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