Posted on 11/10/2007 1:01:10 PM PST by zencat
Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about them. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency has alerted Americans to a threat — information the White House includes on its Web site. But government experts and intelligence officials say such a threat gets vastly more attention than it deserves. These officials said a true suitcase nuke would be highly complex to produce, require significant upkeep and cost a small fortune.
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If the terrorists check their suitcase nukes on a Delta Airlines flight their chances of a successful operation will be greatly reduced.
The odds of a terrorist nuke going off in a US city are very small. There are dozens of low-tech methods for the terrorists to choose from that would cause widespread chaos and economic havoc. Imagine a couple of dozen D.C. snipers popping up at random around the country, for example. People would be afraid to leave their homes for days, if not weeks.
Have you got a bunker to go to? Congress sure does. If the threat wasn’t there, why do they ( the appointed ones) have one or two to retire to? I don’t have “bunker busters”, but if I did - - -
Ditto that.
It doesn’t take a genius to come up with a dozen low-tech/no-tech ways to cause enormous panic and economic loss. It’s the price we pay for living in an open society, I guess.
All this makes me so confident the USA will not be attacked by lunatics with a suitcase full of nukes!!
A small package of Biological germs is another question all together!
Oh man, it was all a scam, those suitcase nukes. Hmm? Who should I believe anymore.
Guess we won’t know until one of those suitcase nukes is unleashed on a city. Then folks might believe it.
True. But nothing is stopping anyone from getting one of our mini nukes and putting it in a suitcase. The mini nuke would still require the usual upkeep however.
w48- Mechanical time delay or proximity airburst, or contact Yield: 72 T
That thing might fit in my suitcase along with my coral red lipstick.
Wieght 118 lbs. 6.1 inches (155 mm) x 33.3 inches
It would easily fit in your duffle bag.
Ha ha ! Just joking with ya. Sick joke, huh? Especially when we are talking about nukes.
But hey, I come from a generation of the cold war when they prepared us for a nuclear attack by teaching us to crouch under our school desk. LOL
Frequent flyer LOL!
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)
The point is, there are plenty of small artillary shell nukes and small bombs that can be stuck in a suit case and detonated that WE make. No doubt the Ruskies, French, Brits, crazy Paki's and Hindu's in India make them too.
It was a Spanish test that Ted Kennedy got someone to take for him (I don’t know if he paid the other guy anything). At least it wasn’t an easy subject like Latin or Calculus.
Dave Barry wrote a funny novel which involves a suitcase nuke...it was made into a movie which was about to be released when 9/11 happened (so the release was put off for a while).
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