[Southack]

"They have a rather short shelf life if not continually maintained."
"I see people claiming this, but I have yet to see anyone provide support for the claim." - calenel

Look up the half-life of Polonium, a material that does not exist in nature (can only be made in nuclear reactors and cyclotrons).

Beryllium trigger isotopes can have as little as a 53 day half-life, for instance. Polonium 210, a Man-made isotope that can *only* be created in nuclear reactors or cyclotrons, has a 140 day half-life.

This is simple physics. Moreover, heavy metals like uranium and plutonium are among the most brittle materials known to man, and the slightest bit of humidity turns them into uranium oxide or plutonium oxide (i.e. worthless rust).

[calenel]

Read through the rest of the thread. I gave you the courtesy of pinging you when somebody misattributed your (apparently boilerplate) comments. We aren't talking about suitcase, backpack or other baby nukes. We are talking about any type of nuclear weapon brought in whole or piecemeal and hidden in the US.

Reposting the comments that the other Freeper attributed to SouthTrack contributes exactly nothing to the discussion as most of it doesn't apply and the rest has been dealt with in earlier posts. For example, the link to Beryllium trigger isotopes that have a 53 day half-life means nothing. I hope the islamofascists waste all their money on such technologies. They would have to replenish more often than they change their underwear. And we already discussed oxidation (although your so-called worthless rust can be refined pretty easily).

So before you slap me around with some more boilerplate responses, please take the time to read the rest of the thread.