Minitier's book, "Misinformation," blows apart the notion of true "suitcase nukes" being easily smuggled, or used, anywhere. These are much larger than believed, and take incredible arming and operational know-how. However, a "dirty bomb" is quite easy to make, and use, and I'm surprised it hasn't been used yet.
Like this?
The W54 warhead weighed 51-pounds and had an explosive yield of 0.18 kilotons. The projectile in the picture was 30 inches long, 11 inches in diameter, and weighed 76 pounds. The same warhead was used in so called "backpack" nukes and in the Falcon Air to Air missile.
A dirty bomb is like kissing your sister for an IslamoFascist. Seeing NYC go up in a great big fireball is the wet dream of these sickos - the fulfillment of their prophecies.
If 9/11 taught them anything, it was that when you strike a sleeping king, you better cut its head off in the first blow. Nukes would have likely taken us off the world economic and political stage for 10 years at least, and maybe would have done it permanently.
Look at the moral equivalency idiots (leftists) in our own country do on losing the WTC? Some have even argued that we deserved it because of all the 'enemies' we've been making abroad.
Nuking a couple of US cities would have eventually resulted in lefties and euroweenies saying, "Well, they lived by the sword (Hiroshima and Manhattan Project), so they died by the sword."