[Monty22002]

You screwed up on #1, so stopped there.

“The W68 weighs 367 pounds (166 kg). The warhead’s dimensions are not publicly known, however to fit the maximum load of 14 within the roughly 65-inch-diameter (1,700 mm) Poseidon payload fairing,”

A ton, uh huh.

[Chainmail]

And so the Iranians will have the ability to build W68s or or W80s or anything like them? The original and lower-tech nukes - which is where the Iranians and North Koreans are at the moment - were weighty and bulky.

Give us all a break. I'm just tired of the BS artists out there with their "weather balloon advanced delivery systems". Both the dingbat Iranians and the North Koreans have long-range missiles and the ability to adapt designs to a naval platform. We should be worried about them and nukes, just not harebrained.

[jonascord]

I'm not necessarily disputing, but it has taken 70 years of constant testing and development to shrink an atomic delivery package down to those dimensions, and be reasonably sure that, when the button is pushed, there isn't just a blue glow and a violently radioactive puddle of melted plutonium. Or worse, a loud bang and bits of shattered reactive mass all over the place.

I'm not saying they can't do it, but this is the same country that accused us of sending them faulty cars, because one flipped over and a 7th century engineer noticed that there was no separate chassis. (Unibody construction having been missed.)