The Improved Nuclear Device is different than the nuclear bombs in the US and Russian military arsenals is the “dose response”. With an Improvised Nuclear Devise, it cannot be determined as to the overall affect it will have when designated, specifically, when other chemicals, fissions, etc. to detonate the “dirty bomb”. “When an IND explodes, it gives off four types of energy: a blast wave, intense light, heat, and radiation” (CDC). Therefore, the overall affect can have short term or long-term effects on those within the proximate area of the explosion. However, with the nuclear bombs in the US and Russian military, the affects can be much greater and can spread out over a larger body of area. In comparing with the nuclear bombing of
