As the world braces for a new superpower nuclear arms race, something less flashy keeps security officials around the world up at night: the dirty bomb. The prospect of this radioactive device in the hands of terrorists or madmen is, according to experts, very real and very hard to combat.The world’s post–World War II nuclear nonproliferation commitments are crumbing. Nations large and small, some with stable governments, some with shaky or autocratic regimes, want to join the nuclear club. An unintended consequence of this trend is the creation of global gray and black markets for radioactive material. And terrorist groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) are ready to buy.Detection technology is still catching up with the problem, and coordination among international, national, and local counterterrorism officials leaves much to be desired.

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Of course, despite recurring terrorist attacks in the Arab world and Northern Africa, Europe.

A dirty bomb is not a nuclear bomb. A nuclear bomb creates an explosion that is millions of times more powerful than a dirty bomb. The cloud of radiation from a nuclear bomb could spread thousands of square miles, whereas a dirty bomb's radiation could be dispersed within a few blocks or miles of the explosion. The former deputy chief of U.S. Cyber Command has warned of the dangers of nation-state cyber weapons in terrorist hands. ISIS Or Al-Qaeda Could Attack Using ‘Dirty Bomb’.