[narby]

About all the tin-foil action regarding the legendary "suitcase nukes".

Has anyone come up with an answer to how much decay the deuterium, necessary to operate a small nuke, has occured in these old Soviet devices? I've heard that these things won't operate after 7 years or so, because the deuterium must be reprocessed to maintain its purity.

But then, what do I know. I'm a software guy.

[Sonny M]

I don't know if you heard this or not but US and Russian Intelligence, not to mention second hand reports from afgahan talk about Bin Laden trying to buy a suitcase Nuke from the Russian Mafia, he paid them a large amount of money between 20 to 50 million, no ones sure enough yet, and they ripped him off. The smeared the plutonium on alot of parts so the radiation detectors would go off and put some useless chemicals inside. They got paid and disappeared, and Al Quada got junk.