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This is a Cessna 150

A suitcase nuke or suitcase bomb is a very compact and portable nuclear weapon and could have the dimensions of 60 x 40 x 20 centimeters or 24 x 16 x 8 inches. The smallest possible bomb-like object would be a single critical mass of plutonium (or U-233) at maximum density under normal conditions.

The Pu-239 weighs 10.5 kg and is 10.1 cm across. It doesn't take much more than a single critical mass to cause significant explosions ranging from 10-20 tons. These types of weapons can also be as big as two footlockers.

The physics of the Cessna 150 make it an improbable terror weapon. Indeed, we have an incident to show us that a Cessna 150 is not much threat to the White House.

A Cessna 150 does not a warplane make.

A Cessna 150 waould make a dangerous warplane indeed .

Government Alert: Hospital Security Breach

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This really has federal authorities puzzled - intruders masquerading as doctors and inspectors probing hospital security. But there is no evidence the cases are connected, including two in New Jersey. Hospital officials and security experts say the similarities are disturbing.

It happened on Easter Sunday. Three men of middle-eastern descent entered a Sussex County hospital posing as physicians.

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Watch For Impostors, Homeland Security Warns City Hospitals

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New York City hospitals are on the lookout for impostors trying to scope out health-care facilities and locate radioactive materials following warnings late last month from the Department of Homeland Security and the city Police Department about an emerging pattern of “suspicious incidents” in some American cities.

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Stowaway on American nuke-powered aircraft carrier

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A Newport man who boarded an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier anchored in The Solent has been made subject to an anti-social behaviour order and banned from named sensitive areas.

Abdoul Masmoud Yessoufou, 37, whose address was given at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday as East Street, Newport, admitted entering a prohibited area at Portsmouth Docks.
The court was told that Yessoufou was found on the USS Harry S. Truman at the weekend after he strolled past guards and hitched a ride out to the carrier on a boat used by sailors on runs ashore.

Yessoufou had previously appeared before Uxbridge Magistrates three times this year for entering restricted zones at Heathrow. He also reached the side of an aircraft at Southampton Airport in January.

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44 posted on 05/13/2005 3:55:09 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

As has been repeatedly pointed out by many posters your odds of getting a nuke closer to the center of DC are infinitely better with a car or truck than an aircraft.


45 posted on 05/13/2005 3:56:54 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK
I think there's still a picture of the Davy Crockett miniature nuke here:

Tiny Nukes-- the backpack threat

The smallest US nukes ever made had yields on the order of 0.02 kilotons:


50 posted on 05/13/2005 4:16:20 AM PDT by backhoe (Just another TerriBot... for Life...)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Thanks for the ping!


105 posted on 05/13/2005 7:12:02 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

"A Cessna 150 waould make a dangerous warplane indeed ."

And so would a Chevy Malibu, and without suspicion until the last ten seconds. and with three times the payload.

Then again, how about a Chevy Suburban?


142 posted on 05/13/2005 9:49:32 AM PDT by RobRoy (Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
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