Thank you for expressing your opinion.
Now, click on my name to read Chris Hitchens' experience, so that you can insult him, too. I'm sure that in a battle of the reputations and credibility, the match between "Zeroisanumber" and "Hitchens" will be... entertaining.
Christ, you think they'd have used the thing by now, wouldn't you?
What Christopher Hitchens heard in December of 2001 is similar to the hysteria that gripped the country immediately after Pearl Harbor. People "in the know" in California circa early-1942 fled the coast because they were informed that the Japanese invasion fleet was on it's way by people whose job it was to know. They were afraid, and by being "in the know" and having/believing this information that the general public didn't made them feel more in control of a terror that they were almost powerless to affect in any meaningful way. What you're posting about is very similar, it seems like special information that only those heroic few who are "in the know" can have and understand. It makes believers feel better because they think that by having this information they are more in control of an uncontrollable situation and that they're doing something useful by spreading the word.
The information that I posted was given by a retired nuclear engineer of 30-years experience who called into the Michael Savage show a week or so back. He essentially said that while the idea of a suitcase nuke is scary, the technical realities of nuclear weapons and the difficulty in getting them makes their use unlikely. As unlikely, when you think about it, as a Japanese invasion of California circa 1942.
I'm sorry if I came off as insulting. I was at work and wrote in haste.