Practical response to a dirty bomb

The global community has recognized that a class of weapons known as radiation dispersal devices (RDDs), or dirty bombs, pose a grave threat to the United States and the European Union. Dirty bombs use conventional methods, such as a car bomb, to disperse radioactive materials in a populated economic district to cause great economic and social disruption disproportionate to their actual radiological effects and well beyond the physical destruction from their conventional bomb components.