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by 08-15 1972 days ago
Of course! Anyone can grab something from the ocean floor (~3000m deep), especially something as easy to find as a lump of glass. Glass is also totally easy to melt on your kitchen stove and adding radioactive glass to the bomb you have lying around anyway, turns the bomb from a harmless firecracker into a totally menacing doomsday machine.

Yes, that's the first thing a terrorist would think of.

Seriously, dirty bombs are a red herring. It's the "bomb" part you should be worried about, not the "dirty" part.