So much for a nuclear non proliferation. Obama is making things much worse.
So this probably won’t be a “bomb” as in a gravity bomb, but a warhead? If Iran has S-300s, it is unlikely a fighter like an F-16 armed with a gravity bomb would be able to penetrate? Or is the low level/loft toss still effective in this situation? I would guess more likely a Scud type short/medium range missile.
I think that’s a fair assumption. When journalists say “bomb” they mean a nuclear or thermonuclear warhead.
Plutonium implosion device or Uranium gun?
Nukes are very very small nowadays. Remember we built the Davy Crockett nuke in the 1950s ....over half a century ago and that was something that weighed ....”.a nuclear system which is 10.75 inches diameter (270 mm), about 15.7 inches long (400 mm), and weighs around or slightly over 50 pounds (23 kg).”
nuclear tests of devices corresponding to the W54 characteristics were the Pascal-A and Pascal-B test detonations in 1957.
There were smaller ones than this. I imagine that with 50 years of miniaturization technology in the books, bombs the size of a softball are very probable today.
The Saudis have roughly 30 DF-3 IRBM’s from China, 1800 nm range.