No "dirty bomb" could make this war any more putrid than it already looks or feels to the wretched citizens of southern Ukraine.
On their news feeds, this week's metronomic war of misinformation brought threats that an explosive device laden with radioactive material might be the next horror to befall them.
Between air raid sirens, rockets falling out of the night sky and water pipes pumping brown, briny water, the spectre of low-grade atomic weaponry seemed too far removed from their daily struggles to take seriously.
