Nuclear handgrenade weighs in at 75 lbs.
It works but needs “development”, Scientists say.
What our government can produce is orders of magnitude different from what a few jihadi goat rapists could pull off in a garage. That doesn’t mean a nation like Iran won’t be able to supply something reasonably advanced in a few years.
Is there really a nuclear hand grenade? How could you possibly throw one far enough to stay out of its blast radius?
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. Army Special Forces had SADM (Special Atomic Demolition Munition) Teams that parachuted with, SCUBA/submarine locked out with, skied with, cross country rucksack marched with, and trained to deploy these devices in all types of terrain and weather. The only thing that these SADM Teams were forbidden to discuss with outsiders were the device’s size, shape, weight, yield, and special tactics.
The U.S. Army wanted the Soviets to know we had these weapons and intended to use them in a Nuclear War as a follow up to our B-52 Bomber and ICBM attacks. These SADM Teams were to follow the B-52s in separate aircraft and parachute into remote areas where they were to survive the nuclear winter to come out and eliminate any of the Soviet population that had survived our main nuclear attack.
These SADM Teams provided the “Assured” part of our Mutual Assured Destruction” of the Soviet Union, and unsurprisingly U.S. Army SADM Teams were one of the first things the Soviets wanted to discuss during the opening stages of the SALT negotiations.