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1 posted on 10/07/2015 8:44:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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A more technical discussion of the technology needed to build a suitcase nuke can be found here:

http://www.gizmag.com/suitcase-nukes-fact-or-fiction/18506/

Are ‘suitcase nukes’ a genuine concern?


2 posted on 10/07/2015 8:45:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/30/the-littlest-boy/


3 posted on 10/07/2015 8:46:23 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Truck nukes are far more likely and doable.


4 posted on 10/07/2015 8:46:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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“Suitcase nukes closer to fiction than reality”

*YAWN*

Twelve years ago at FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/857060/posts


5 posted on 10/07/2015 8:48:08 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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Someone might want to call the Pentagon about this. They are going to be very surprised to hear the W54 is an act of fiction.


6 posted on 10/07/2015 8:49:20 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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The way I understand it, a “suitcase nuke” would weigh about 200 lbs. and require regular maintenance (replacing tritium, etc.) to keep it ready.
It is doable, though. We have nukes we can shoot from artillery pieces.


7 posted on 10/07/2015 8:50:11 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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I am 65 years old. I am sad to say, that due to corruption and mis management by our Government A-holes, I predict that during my lifetime there WILL BE A NUCLEAR DETONATION somewhere in our nation.
8 posted on 10/07/2015 8:51:21 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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Google W-54 and SADM. 50 Kg was doable for a 2 man team.


9 posted on 10/07/2015 8:51:44 AM PDT by zek157
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With open borders you don’t need a suitcase. A semi would do nicely.


11 posted on 10/07/2015 8:52:07 AM PDT by Lake Living
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"Perhaps the most likely threat is from a suitcase nuclear weapon in a rusty car on a dock in New York City,"

If it's in a rusty car, it doesn't need to be as small as a suitcase - trunk-sized would do nicely.

If you expand "car" to include "light truck", and especially vans, then you can effectively hide a much larger device than a suitcase.
13 posted on 10/07/2015 8:55:59 AM PDT by chrisser (This space for rent.)
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Are will still looking for the suitcase bombs the Russian smuggled into the US. They were all the rage on 9/12.

We are more a risk from someone taking hospital grade uranium and blowing it up with dynamite. That would set off all of the alarms and cause panic.


22 posted on 10/07/2015 9:38:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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As if I would put credence into the emanations of Anything But Conservative, or is it the All Bullshit Company?


23 posted on 10/07/2015 9:42:43 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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