If lemmy had an equivilent of retweeting, I would.

JD should stick to fucking couches, not nuclear physics.

It is stupid for even more reasons than that. I've thought about it back when North Korea had pretend nuclear suicide bombers march on their military parade.

Even if somehow they manage to cram one in a backpack that is carriable by a person, there is no advantage whatsoever given the blast radius. You will have to use a vehicle of sorts to get near the enemy and more importantly away from your friendlies anyway. Whatever distance you can cover on foot afterwards won't make much of a difference. Might as well make it vehicle borne.

I mean, yeah, the Davie Crockett could fit in a back pack, a really big back pack

I mean, the W54 was small enough to be carried by a person and I don't think anyone wants even a 1kt device going off near them. So it's within the realm of possibility even if it does strain credulity as an actual goal Iran was working toward (let alone a solid justification for this bullshit).

Edit: the W54 weighed 51lb (23 kg).

He’s talking about a dirty bomb. And, technically, that is quite possible and doable by the Iranians.

It’s a stupid assertion, yes; but the engineering is plausible.

Dont underestimate the stupidity of their target audience, and the arrogant complacency of his opposition. Its why we have him in the first place. Twice. Half of the second group is still probably going to sit out the primaries and midterms.

As if they would ever be concerned about potential violence in schools

It's like that man or bear situation, but the US Gov't or some hypothetical rando Iranian Nuclear Suicide Bomber?

Also known as a snuke

The demonic ritual of human sacrifice

Isn't the smallest effective nuke the Davy Crocket? Pretty sure it's warhead is still the size of a large hardcase suitcase.

Much more likely would be a dirty bomb. Just a regular bomb with some nuclear material that it spreads. The nuclear material isn't the bomb itself, but used exclusively for the exposure effects. You don't even need plutonium or uranium for this. There are plenty of other radiological sources to make dirty bombs. Old radiographic medical equipment for instance.

There are hundreds of thousands of orphaned sources in the world. Several of them have caused the worst radiological incidents in history.

The fact we don't see this already is quite surprising.

Kinda wild, I vividly remember getting on a plane to Disney with my grandparents as a child (Pre 9/11). My grandpa had a swiss army knife on him when we went through security. I asked him how he was able to get that through, and he said it's a small knife; nothing to worry about. It's legal as long as it's smaller than my palm. I said what if someone brought a knife like that and stabbed the pilot. He laughed it off and said I watch too much TV. Then 9/11 happened and guess how they did it? How did 8 year old me have more sense than whoever was running airports in those days?

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