[vannrox]

SOmething to add to your calculus.

[PeterPrinciple]

Didn't I read that there was a "life" to these devices......that they needed maintenance and didn't remain operational forever. Anyone provide more information????

[harpseal]

The woods are lovely dark and deepp and I have miles to walk brfore I sleep.....Remember

The good news is that maybe this is just sloopy record keeping. The bad news is we have no way of knowing who actually controls some of these weapons if anyone does anymore. We are betting lives that someone trustworthy is in control of these devices.

My initial quote is a Robert Frost poem used in the moie Telelphon

[Woodman]

Interesting that a 4 year old article on this has finaly hit the Pakistani press. I thought they were about 400 years behind the times.

[ALASKA]

A suitcase nuke attached to a drum of anthrax or botulism would be a hellish terror weapon, ideal for political fanatics or blackmailers.

The nuclear blast and aftermath would be the hellish part, the anthrax/botulism would be obliterated by the explosion.

[backhoe]

Tiny Nukes-- the backpack threat

Nuclear News you *can* use--

[marron]

Again, there is no need for a ballistic missile to deliver a nuclear weapon.

All it takes is a cargo ship, a civilian airliner, or, in the case of a small one, a Toyota Camry. And the will to do it.

[andy_card]

This story may be true or not, but the late General Lebed was trying to take power at the time, and scaring the living s--t out of Russia and the United States was one way to do so. So the credibility of this story is somewhat suspect. If Washington's nuked, I'll likely be one of the first to go, so you'll really not be able to tell me "I told you so."