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Tiny Nukes-- the backpack threat
various websites | 09-14-01 | backhoe

Posted on 09/14/2001 6:30:05 AM PDT by backhoe

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Thanks- well, the warhead on "Davy Crockett" would fit under a seat, wouldn't it? Nasty little bugger....
23 posted on 10/20/2001 5:16:38 AM PDT by backhoe
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Anything that goes "bang!" can be rigged to detonate by remote control....
25 posted on 10/20/2001 6:24:33 AM PDT by backhoe
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Any ex-soviet tactical nuclear artillery shell could be converted into a "backpack nuke".

Stripped down to the physics package, they could be as small as 8"D x 30"long and weigh under 50#.

28 posted on 10/30/2001 8:58:31 AM PST by Travis McGee
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Any ex-soviet tactical nuclear artillery shell could be converted into a "backpack nuke"

Absolutely!

29 posted on 10/30/2001 3:41:27 PM PST by backhoe
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Well, I'll tell you one thing. These can be transported from one end of the U.S. to the other by car, Grey Hound Bus or even Amtrak. There's virtually no security, though I know for a fact people wrote to Tom Ridge about Grey Hound and Amtrak's lack of security. For victory & freedom!!!
30 posted on 10/30/2001 3:45:33 PM PST by Saundra Duffy
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---this just in:

FBI focusing on portable nuke threat

31 posted on 12/21/2001 6:26:52 AM PST by backhoe
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The "Davey Crockett" ( W-54 ) Tactical Nuclear Warhead



The W-54 probably represents a near minimum size for a spherical implosion device (the U.S. has conducted tests of a 25.4 cm implosion system however). The W-54 is certainly light enough by itself to be used in a "suit case bomb" but the closest equivalent to such a device that U.S. has ever deployed was a man-carried version called the Mk-54 SADM (Small Atomic Demolition Munition). This used a version of the W-54, but the whole package was much larger and heavier. It was a cylinder 40 cm by 60 cm, and weighed 68 kg (the actual warhead portion weighed only 27 kg). Although the Mk-54 SADM has itself been called a "suitcase bomb" it is more like a "steamer trunk" bomb, especially considering its weight

20 posted on 4/24/02 1:07 AM Eastern by krogers58
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32 posted on 04/24/2002 1:40:10 AM PDT by backhoe
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the U.S.A. fielded the W-54 Davy Crocket variable yield nuclear weapon from 1961-1971. Its warhead weighted 51lb.

Credit: National Archives

(Return to 50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons)

(Return to "Nuclear Davy Crockett")

http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Hayden_072204,00.html

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_nuclear_suitcase.php

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050624.html

 

33 posted on 01/28/2006 1:48:43 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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The Davy Crockett could also be launched from specially equipped jeeps.


Sources: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project; Thomas B. Cochran, William M. Arkin, Milton M. Hoenig, U.S. Nuclear Forces and Capabilities, Volume I, Nuclear Weapons Databook (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1984), pp. 60, 311; Robert Standish Norris and Thomas B. Cochran, "United States Nuclear Tests: July 1945 to 31 December 1992," (Washington, D.C.: Natural Resources Defense Council, 1 February 1994), NWD-94-1, p. 35; Chuck Hansen, U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (New York: Orion Books, 1988), pp. 197-198; Ted Nicholas and Rita Rossi, U.S. Historical Military Aircraft and Missile Data Book (Fountain Valley, California: Data Search Associates, 1991), pp. 3-95, 3-101; U.S. Department of Energy.

Credit: National Archives

34 posted on 01/28/2006 1:52:16 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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I tend to discount all these "back pack" nuke stories, 'cause if Osama had them, he's have used them on us bu now...
35 posted on 01/28/2006 1:59:45 AM PST by Bender2 (Read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel)
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Suitcase Nukes Said Unlikely To Exist--U.S. backpack nukes:

http://www.active-duty.com/BackPackNukes.htm

Others include:

Mk-54 SADM- Atomic Demolition Munition (ADM) weight 54 lbs (bomb only) 16 in. X24 in. Yield: Variable, 10 T - 1 Kt.


Artillery Shell 8in.x44 in. wieght:200 lbs. Yield: Variable - 100 T to 1.1 Kt (Mod 0), 0.8 Kt (Mod 1)

It takes serious design work to make them small, but it can be done.


This one weighed at under 100 pounds. Sub-kiloton yield. It's name was the Davy Crockett.


36 posted on 11/13/2007 5:46:49 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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