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Tiny Nukes-- the backpack threat
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| backhoe
Posted on 09/14/2001 6:30:05 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: trax2001
Thanks- well, the warhead on "Davy Crockett" would fit under a seat, wouldn't it? Nasty little bugger....
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10/20/2001 5:16:38 AM PDT
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backhoe
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To: trax2001
Anything that goes "bang!" can be rigged to detonate by remote control....
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10/20/2001 6:24:33 AM PDT
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backhoe
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To: backhoe
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#.
To: Travis McGee
Any ex-soviet tactical nuclear artillery shell could be converted into a "backpack nuke"Absolutely!
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posted on
10/30/2001 3:41:27 PM PST
by
backhoe
To: backhoe
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!!!
To: Saundra Duffy
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posted on
12/21/2001 6:26:52 AM PST
by
backhoe
To: all
To: AmerRepb
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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posted on
04/24/2002 1:40:10 AM PDT
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backhoe
To: All
the U.S.A. fielded the
W-54 Davy Crocket variable yield nuclear weapon from 1961-1971. Its warhead weighted 51lb.
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posted on
01/28/2006 1:48:43 AM PST
by
backhoe
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To: All
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
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posted on
01/28/2006 1:52:16 AM PST
by
backhoe
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To: backhoe
I tend to discount all these "back pack" nuke stories, 'cause if Osama had them, he's have used them on us bu now...
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posted on
01/28/2006 1:59:45 AM PST
by
Bender2
(Read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel)
To: All
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.
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11/13/2007 5:46:49 AM PST
by
backhoe
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