[RightWhale]

You don’t ‘improvise’ a nuclear devvice. Dead give-away this is a spoof article.

[Spktyr]

Wellllll... You *can* improvise an *atomic* device - see “gun-type” atomic devices.

All you need is the fissile material. And Iran has some.

[1curiousmind]

“Dead give-away this is a spoof article”

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confused by what you mean by this. the hearing did take place on april 2.

From the Washington Post: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/activity/2008/apr/02/
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (11 a.m.): Holds a hearing on “Nuclear Terrorism: Assessing the Threat to the Homeland.” Homeland Security Chief Intelligence Officer Charles Allen; Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, director of the Energy Department’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Matthew Bunn of the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; and Gary Ackerman of the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, testify. Contact: 202-224-2627 or Sheila Menz (Lieberman), 202-224-1389 or Jen Burita (Collins), 202-224-4751 342 Dirksen.

[CreativePerspective]

“You don’t ‘improvise’ a nuclear devvice. Dead give-away this is a spoof article.”

A “dirty bomb” could be considered an improvised device — they “just” spread nuclear material all over a major city and contaminate it for years.

[Publius6961]

You don’t ‘improvise’ a nuclear devvice. Dead give-away this is a spoof article.

Losers don't "improvise" anything. They buy it, when financed by their supporters, the richest revenue producer on the planet, Saudi Arabia.

Surely, if they can purchase unlimited quantities of the most efficient explosives (which they can't produce themselves), buying a nuclear device (and their caretakers) or two is only a matter of time...

[PUGACHEV]

"You don’t ‘improvise’ a nuclear devvice. Dead give-away this is a spoof article."

I am not sure what you mean. While it seems unlikely that a nuclear weapon could be slapped together from odds and ends, one might well improvise the acquisition of a nuclear device, or improvise a dirty bomb from any nuclear material that might come to hand. Frankly, I don't see the wisdom of underestimating the threat. You can deny the possibility that such a thing will happen, and rest peacefully until the day it does, but then it will be too late.

As to what would we do the day after, I am afraid we are so politically divided and confused that we will do nothing; we will not retaliate against anyone. There will be lots of talk, lots of grieving, and lots of anger, but nothing will come of it. It would (or will) take multiple such strikes before the general public begins to put our security where it belongs, ahead of everything else.

[Names Ash Housewares]

The Obama defense plan.......

[BikerJoe]

You don’t ‘improvise’ a nuclear devvice. Dead give-away this is a spoof article.

I've never liked the term "IED". As if anything "improvised" is haphazard and badly done, and the only DEADLY weapons are the ones that are specially manufactured by trained professionals with super special talents.

Well folks, those haphazard and badly done IEDs have killed how many thousands of our troops?