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100 Soviet-Era "Backpack" Sized Nuclear Weapons Could Be Missing
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Posted on 07/28/2020 7:02:27 PM PDT by AggregateThreat
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To: AggregateThreat
I think we get this same story every five years or so.
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posted on
07/28/2020 8:25:28 PM PDT
by
jetson
(chiwowa)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/28/2020 8:28:09 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: AggregateThreat
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posted on
07/28/2020 9:17:10 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Leo Terrell - Michael Shellenberger - Stephen Hsu - Bari Weiss - Bernell Trammell)
To: PUGACHEV
Used to have steady customer at the shop who claimed to have been a tech for these decades ago.
No way to know if true or not but the part of his story that made me go WTH was his claim that his location at the time was Panama.
Why would we have such in Panama?
He never got specific but did seem to have pretty plausible general knowledge about the subject.
Only reason I could ever come up with for Panama would be an emergency shut-down of the canal?
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posted on
07/28/2020 10:03:37 PM PDT
by
Ex gun maker.
(Unconstitutional "Law" is void from inception.....)
To: AggregateThreat
Missing suitcase nukes? Has anyone checked Ebay and Amazon?
Weren’t these bombs also called something like MDTs?
To: doorgunner69
You are correct sir. Deuterium and Tritium are relatively short half life material (5-7 years. Half life means in one half life, half the material has decayed to something else). If they are Soviet Era weapons, then the fusion aspect of the device would be virtually worthless. This small of a device would most likely have to be an implosion type device using Plutonium. As someone else mentioned earlier the capacitors to create the implosion have to be basically perfect, exact and simultaneous discharge or the implosion to create the nuclear aspect doesn't work. The biggest issue would be the Plutonium, it's not only radioactive, but also physically toxic, but if the conventional explosives still work, would spread toxic and radioactive material around, but at least would be relatively local. I personally wouldn't be upset if some potential terrorist is now suffering from not only radiological effects, but also toxicity from Plutonium.
To: AggregateThreat
To: AggregateThreat
Just wait ‘till the BLM rioters get them.
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posted on
07/29/2020 1:16:03 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(China kills over 650,000 and the sheeple sleep. Cops kill one person, and cities burn.)
The smallest nuke I recall was an ASW device that was designed
to displace 1 cubic mile of water. It dropped by ASW aircraft. Basically a nuke depth charge.
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posted on
07/29/2020 1:33:18 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: AggregateThreat
in the early 50’s our Army had a 280 mm cannon that fired a nuke projectile. Also, the Navy engineered a nuke projectile for the 16 inch guns on the Iowa class battleships. I know the Army did actually fire a nuke from their gun. Don’t think the Navy every tried to shoot their 16 inch nuke projo.
To: Bull Snipe
To: mad_as_he$$
There is one of those guns parked in front of War of the Memorial Museum, here in Newport News, VA.
To: dfwgator
One of the cold war authors, back in the late 70s early 80s wrote a book wherein the Soviets had a flagpole company that supplied poles to locations, govt installations, bases all over the US. They were installing mini nukes in the ornamental balls at the tops. When enough were in place thay would set them all off at once. Really scary story for its sheer simplicity.
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posted on
07/29/2020 4:21:20 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
To: doorgunner69
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posted on
07/29/2020 6:04:01 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: cgbg
“are very hazardous to your health if you just stick them in your basement and forget about them. ;-)”
Oh crap!
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posted on
07/29/2020 6:08:13 AM PDT
by
dljordan
To: blueunicorn6
Looks like I wont have to exaggerate my accomplishments this year! *bada*boom*kisk*
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posted on
07/29/2020 6:47:07 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: TalBlack
One of the cold war authors, back in the late 70s early 80s wrote a book wherein the Soviets had a flagpole company that supplied poles to locations, govt installations, bases all over the US. They were installing mini nukes in the ornamental balls at the tops. Strategic Air Command used to send out a case of books every month to the underground ICBM Launch Control Centers. That book was in one of those cases and one Alert I didn't want to study for my Masters degree so I read that book. IIRC the ending was unsettling.
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posted on
07/29/2020 8:04:01 AM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: AggregateThreat
As I understand, these devices have radioactive material to scatter, but at this point would have to be reconstituted to actually have a thermonuclear detonation, as the trigger half-lives have reduced them to non-functionality.
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posted on
07/29/2020 8:25:09 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: AggregateThreat
They’ll have to be reworked due to a limited shelf life. Few terrorists have the skills needed to do so.
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posted on
07/29/2020 11:14:18 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
One of my favorite comedy/drama movies.
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posted on
07/29/2020 11:16:47 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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