Posted on 07/28/2020 7:02:27 PM PDT by AggregateThreat
ere's What You Need to Remember: A “suitcase nuke” is essentially a nuclear device so small, it could be transported in a backpack or in a person’s luggage.
Tactical nuclear weapons — compacts, small-yield atomic bombs that are not necessarily designed to be rained down on cities from bomber aircraft, nor delivered via Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, but could be an artillery shell, a nuclear torpedo, landmine, or other small and easily transportable devices.
One of these tactical nuclear devices is the so-called “backpack” or “suitcase nuke” — essentially a nuclear device so small, it could be transported in a backpack or in a person’s luggage.
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Best part of the movie.
And you don't know which one it is.
And you don't know the exact voltage it should be.
And it discharges to an unacceptable voltage after a relatively short time.
And the whole thing is a paperweight without the right array of voltages.
If it’s not Russia or a former satellite, they won’t have the information required to maintain or activate it.
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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.
Pakistan has tactical nukes
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/pakistan%E2%80%99s-tactical-nuclear-weapons-should-terrify-you-142937
the only info I’ve seen on US small nukes center around old news: the Davey Crocket man portable nuke and this 58 pound one:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/30/the-littlest-boy/
Iran is still very closely allied with the country in question. Never mind all the help Iran got from our previous administration . . .
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I thought a snizz was like a sleeping mask or something until I looked it up.
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There are two best part of the movie.
Interesting. I was not aware of that safeguard, in the American model I assume. Since the Soviets tended to copy stolen American designs and respond to the same imperatives, something like that battery system may have been incorporated into the Soviet version as well.
I’ve heard about Siberian hunters/woodsman that happen on large room sized metal things that turn out to be nuclear power sources for things left in the middle of no where to power things that were forgotten decades age. They know something valuable is inside and use axes on them. Of course nuclear energy grade power sources may degrade but still “very hot” they come out with radiation burns.
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DK
If you can find the following documentary, I highly recommend it: Trinity and Beyond The Atomic Bomb Movie
Here is a 9min peak:
https://youtu.be/JvnWXf6UZXY
A couple of drops of red mercury will bring one right up to its full rated explosive power... /Art Bell
They must have been scooped up by the US or one of our NATO allies, or some jihadist would have used one by now.
Give it to a suicide ANTIFA wack job. Take out Portland and 10,000 of his buddys.
Of course artillery rounds, nuclear or HE are designed to be fired from field artillery pieces.
The U.S., without question, has suitcase nukes in inventory, or we would be highly negligent in developing various types of weapons with which to take it to the enemy.
I think we can safely speculate that the enemies of freedom have worked long and hard to miniaturize nukes and place them in their arsenals around the world.
Now, as for a hundred lost suitcase nukes? I doubt it and hope and pray that number is very inaccurate. A dozen or more small tactial nukes getting misplaced during all the reshuffling during the 1990’s and 2000’s? Could be?
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Harriers are certainly not retired, I am happy to report. I experience their “sound of freedom” out of Cherry Point MCAS frequently.
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.
Triggers might be unreliable, but boost gases like Dueterium and tritium are almost certainly defunct. Those tiny nukes need the boosting to produce much of a yield. Neutron generators might be inop as well.
IIRC, small nukes like artillery shells and man portables need yearly maintenance.
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