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A Boring Dystopia

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It's not actually that hard to find nuclear material in the wild you could use in a dirty bomb.

Really? AFAIK, it's not like people who found orphan sources used special skills, they were just (un)lucky. If it were that easy to consistently find and collect them, governments would have done that. And Russia has a database of nuclear-powered remote sensors deployed in the Soviet era.