Radiological terrorism

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 501-523

  Karam, P Andrew ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirty bomb; Nuclear weapons; Radiation; Radiation health effects; Radiological weapons; RDD; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 22244480657     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030590949618     Document Type: Article

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