“If the Ukes develop and deploy a suitcase nuke on a Russian city, it is because they got pushed into an existential corner.”
A suitcase nuke is at best a dirty bomb for a country with the technological capabilities of Ukraine. I doubt that Russia at this point possesses the requisite layers of technologies required to develop and produce such a device. They may have in the past but I doubt that they can do it now.
These devices are also exponentially more expensive to produce than a much heavier nuclear device.
In a nutshell it’s easier to achieve critical mass with a larger mass.
In a nutshell it’s easier to achieve critical mass with a larger mass.
***True enough. One could build essentially a nuke truck bomb. And the Ukes have some very radioactive soil at Chernobyl they could just pile into some of their missiles & fire at Russian ammo dumps.