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To: jstolzen
Yes they could possibly have bigger warheads or entirely homemade warheads, produced from plutonium out of scavenged Soviet devices. They could have anything at all. They have the cash and drugs to buy whatever they want.

One thing I have learned from all the knowledgeable sources out there is that the difficulty of making a nuclear device 'work' is related to the amount of fissionable material you have. If you only have a minimal amount of the precious 'stuff', you must have everything perfect to achieve detonation. If you have a lot of 'stuff', it gets much easier to assure detonation even if parts of the device are degraded or not exactly engineered properly.

72 posted on 12/26/2003 8:45:34 AM PST by Sender (We are now at Code Ernie - stock up on barbecue, beer, duct tape, ammo, batteries)
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To: All
Anyone else been hearing Ridge's radio commercials exhorting everyone in the country to prepare for "the unlikely but possible" event of a terrorist attack? It tries to be cheerful and asks you to go to their website and make the necessary preparations, just as "California needs to prepare for earthquakes and [others] prepare for tornadoes"?

Obviously our government does not take this chatter and bravado lightly.

73 posted on 12/26/2003 8:52:08 AM PST by Yaelle
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