[Lurker]

the smallest any fissable weapon can be would require several foot lockers of equipment and shielding.

Wrong.

The would-be terrorists have a much much higher likelihood of dying from radiation exposure in the time it would take to put one together.

Wrong.

Then they’d have to create a trigger mechanism—no easy task

Wrong.

and in some ways, much more difficult to figure out than getting the fissable materials

Wrong.

(itself almost impossible).

Wrong.

[Steve Van Doorn]

You think a terrorist orginization could put together a nuclear weapon with out the recourses of a nation?

[Ilya Mourometz]

Not exactly an argument there. Anyone can look up the facts and see that a suitcase nuke is a hollywood fantasy. It doesn’t exist and is nearly impossible to even try to make. What are your sources?