[Ben Mugged]

Geeezzzz. Get with the program

I realize this is an exercise in altered reality (just fiction) but the plutonium also effects the molecular construction of the explosives surrounding the "grapefruit". If the resulting explosion is asymmetrical, you get a room in a building with plutonium pollution in it but nothing like a nuclear explosion. The only thing in a 40 year old suitcase bomb that would be useful is the plutonium and even it might need to be re-machined.

My point is why create hysteria in the folks over something with less probability than a cure for cancer when you have an opportunity to show them the real threat?

[RunningWolf]

Yes most people don't understand that a device like a suitcase nuke has several components with short shelf life (get stale) as it were to render old devices a very uncertain proposition.

To your last paragraph exactly. Anything less would be analogous to taking a 22 rifle, and in full view shooting thru the arm the pilots of a fully loaded and fueled B1 Bomber.

W.