Squantos tells me, not only is it preposterous on it’s face, but that these weapons would be nearly impossible to A) activate and B) maintain without massive state support. Within a short time they become inert.
Do I have it kinda-right Squantos?
Probably left them at a Military Base when they abandoned it
I would guess that these things need a lot of specialized, complex maintenance to remain functional. But who knows?
i’d think the triggers are shot by now...
Gosh, I hope our enemies don’t learn how lost and devastated the American people would be if one went off in DC and vaporized our beloved leaders, bureaucrats and lobbyists. We need to keep that a big secret!
Not to be confused with The Breadbox Nuke or Fanny Pack Nuke.
Like most complicated mechanical things, nuclear weapons have a limited shelf life and require maintenance and replacement of components and materials that age out. Thus, after enough time, nuclear weapons that are not maintained are no longer operable. Granted, the baseball-sized chunk of fissile material in a backpack nuke would remain dangerous, but at least a nuclear detonation would no longer be possible even if the armament code can be broken or overridden.
We’ve known that for years, decades, even.
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BTW, doesn’t the U.S. military have “suitcase nukes?” For example a man portable 95 lb 155mm nuclear artillery round could potentially be utilized as a dirty suitcase nuke.
I’m sure the old USSR and their eastern bloc allies have a few “lost” nukes of various shapes and sizes floating around the Middle East, North Korea, etc. What better way to utilize them than through an Islamic madman bent on establishing a global Caliphate? Hey Antifa wouldn’t hesitate to use one if they had half a chance.
Give it to a suicide ANTIFA wack job. Take out Portland and 10,000 of his buddys.
Not viable as a nuke, but would still make a nasty dirty bomb.
My understanding is that the user would have to have a registered DOS 6.3 diskette to boot the damn thing up to make the thing operational...
Suitcase nukes require maintenance and a lot of it.
Let the Karens and Chads worry.
I think we get this same story every five years or so.
Triggers wear out...
Missing suitcase nukes? Has anyone checked Ebay and Amazon?
Weren’t these bombs also called something like MDTs?
This is very old news.