Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> the object in question is far smaller than a "football".
> Standard (Size 5) ball is 71 cm (28 in.) in circumference or about 22.5
> cm (9 in.) in diameter.

By God, I think you've got it! The discussion was in re the smallest
mass of plutonium - "twice as heavy as lead, it's going to weigh about
200 lbs." - necessary for the construction of a working dirty bomb.

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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