[Poohbah]

Travis, this is one of those things that I don't think anything will fix. I have worked in a space that was subject to Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty inspection visits, and the size of an INF Treaty "controlled item" (i.e., something that the inspectors could demand to look inside) was a file cabinet drawer. They couldn't shuffle through papers inside the cabinet, but they had every right to demand that the cabinet be opened up so they could make sure it ONLY had papers in it.]

The "Davy Crockett" was a recoilless rifle roundwith a nuclear warhead. Casing diameter was 11 inches at its widest point; length was 30 inches long. Yield was variable from 0.01 kilotons (about four-five times as big as the Alfred P. Murrah Building truck bomb) to 1 kiloton (400-500 times as large as the APMFB device).

Something like that would fit inside a file cabinet. I don't see how you could check everything closely enough to prevent a cagey opponent from smuggling in a small nuke--one could simply hide it inside an electrical transformer casing with layers of boron-impregnated foam rubber and lead to stop the signatures from leaking out.

I'm going to have to find Erwin Strauss' book, Basement Nukes: the Consequences of Cheap Weapons of Mass Destruction.

[Travis McGee]

Sooner or later the Islamikazis will get lucky and set a nuke off in an American city, or let loose smallpox or pounds (not grams!) of anthrax etc.

Sooner or later we are going to have to quarantine the Muslim Islamikazi world from the civilized world.