Is Iran preparing to place radioactive warheads in its ballistic missiles in response to Isfahan?

Source: ProNews

Date: June 21, 2025

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Iran will provide an "even more catastrophic response," the country's president, Massoud Pezeskinan, said after the Israeli strike on the isfahan nuclear research complex and everyone wonders how this would happen and what extent it will have.

"Our response to the continuation of the attack of the Zionist regime will be even more catastrophic," the Iranian president said during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, Iran's IRNA news agency reported.

In the same phone call, the Iranian president said that "Tehran refuses to stop its nuclear activities as a whole under any circumstances."

Westerners are concerned that Tehran has succeeded in building one or two nuclear bombs, while it has several radioactive bombs in its arsenal.

A radioactive bomb, also known as a "dirty bomb", is a device that combines conventionally explosively with radioactive material (subject):

Its purpose is not the nuclear explosion and the disasters that follow it, but the death of entire areas, even cities with the spread of radioactivity, since citizens have either been infected or not forced to evacuate.

The bomb includes conventional explosives, such as TNT, which are used to disperse radioactive material.

Radioactive material may come from various sources, such as medical isotopes, radioactive waste or other materials emitting ionizing radiation, but also from Iran's current production

Five ballistic missiles, even if shot down, will spread radiation and make the city uninhabited for a long time.

Experienced use of American depleted uranium projectiles (a type of "dirty" projectile found that over time the bones, lymph nodes, liver and kidneys, as well as the immune system are affected by cancer.

In addition, congenital anomalies can also be presented by the next generation. At the International Conference held in Baghdad in December 1998, the results were announced in the health of Iraqis eight years after the Gulf War. For example, lymphomas, leukemias, lung, brain, gastrointestinal system, bones and other areas of the body increased fivefold.

Third, the deposition of this radioactive uranium on the surface of the ground and its transport from crops to the food chain constitutes an additional risk to the inhabitants of the bombed areas.

“A dirty bomb is very easy to build,” says Scott Recker, vice president of the nuclear material safety program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

Most "dirty bombs" will not release enough radioactivity to cause death or serious illness. Low radiation exposure levels usually do not cause symptoms.

Its main impact is psychological, which is why such devices are often referred to as “weapons of mass disruption.”

"Dirty bombs" are not intended for use on the battlefield, as they grow more visibly in urban areas, Recker observes.

“They are more a psychological weapon. When you try to scare people, intimidate people, you use such a weapon.”

Such a throw in a city like Tel Aviv or Haifa would have catalytic consequences.

Of course, after the question is whether the Israelis would answer with some of the 90 nuclear warheads they have verified and would not be limited to "dirty" but to destroying.