dirty bomb

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Noun

dirty bomb (plural dirty bombs)

1. A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.

   Synonyms: Radiological Dispersal Device, RDD, radiological bomb

   • 2022 October 24, Peter Beaumont, “Ukraine war heading for ‘uncontrolled escalation’, says Russia”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Without providing evidence, Shoigu said Ukraine could escalate by using a “dirty bomb” – conventional explosives laced with radioactive material.

2. A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or by design.

   Synonyms: cobalt bomb, salted bomb

   Antonym: clean bomb

Translations

device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material

• Arabic: قُنْبُلَة قَذِرَة f (qunbula qaḏira)
• Belarusian: бру́дная бо́мба f (brúdnaja bómba)
• Bulgarian: мръ́сна бо́мба f (mrǎ́sna bómba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 髒彈／脏弹 (zh) (zāngdàn), 骯髒炸彈／肮脏炸弹 (āngzāng zhàdàn)

• Czech: špinavá bomba f
• Danish: beskidt bombe c
• Dutch: vuile bom f
• Estonian: räpane pomm
• Finnish: likainen pommi
• French: bombe sale (fr) f
• German: schmutzige Bombe f
• Greek: βρώμικη βόμβα f (vrómiki vómva)
• Hebrew: פְּצָצָה מְלֻכְלֶכֶת f (ptsatsá melukhlékhet)
• Hungarian: piszkos bomba
• Irish: buama salach m
• Italian: bomba sporca f
• Japanese: 汚い爆弾 (きたないばくだん, kitanai bakudan), ダーティー・ボム (dātī-bomu)
• Korean: 더러운 폭탄 (deoreoun poktan), 더티밤 (deotibam)
• Latvian: netīrā bumba f
• Lithuanian: nešvari bomba f
• Macedonian: валкана бомба f (valkana bomba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skitten bombe m or f

• Persian: بمب کثیف (bomb-e kasif)
• Polish: brudna bomba (pl) f
• Portuguese: bomba suja f
• Romanian: bomba murdară f
• Russian: гря́зная бо́мба (ru) f (grjáznaja bómba)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прљава бомба f

  Roman: prljava bomba f

• Slovak: špinavá bomba f
• Slovene: umazana bomba f
• Spanish: bomba sucia f
• Swedish: radioaktiv bomb c, smutsig bomb (sv) c
• Ukrainian: брудна́ бо́мба f (brudná bómba)

nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design

• Belarusian: бру́дная бо́мба f (brúdnaja bómba)
• Danish: beskidt bombe c
• Finnish: likainen pommi
• German: schmutzige Bombe f
• Russian: гря́зная бо́мба f (grjáznaja bómba)
• Swedish: smutsig bomb (sv) c
• Ukrainian: брудна́ бо́мба f (brudná bómba)