See also Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears about the fate of the guard at the terrorist bomb fabrication site.
I don't know -- nor do I want to -- what would need to be done to ensure the safety of the workers and environs of a factory making such radiological-based (not detonation/thermal pulse based) WMD's.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Nukes suck, but we could have forestalled a LOT of the world's current problems by nuking Stalin in 1946...
And creating a whole different set of 'em.
Amen to that, brother, and several million Russians would still be alive. Patton was right - we should have taken Russia while we were there and had the Germans to fight with us, although I totally understand why nobody wanted to keep fighting. Even with a fire brand like Patton, invading Russia would have been an extremely risky proposition, but I'm sure he had already thought of that, given his knowledge of military history.