Palestine

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You seem to not understand what a ‘suitcase nuke’ is. It’s essentially a small, low-yield nuclear weapon that can be manufactured by someone with (relatively) low-grade engineering skills. Since the dissolution of the USSR, a lot of national security groups have been concerned about fissile materials falling into terrorist hands.

Please answer the question.

Boru

Edit: Also, if you could do us all a favour and ease off on the big fat text, that’d be great.

There is a lower limit to how small and how weak a simple nuclear bomb can be because it takes a certain critical mass of fissile material to get  a proper nuclear explosion going in the straight forward manner.   That lower limit is in the rough ballpark of the Hiroshima bomb.   Making a weapon substantially smaller and less powerful than that is actually technically quite challenging and it took the superpowers over 10 years to achieve after their first successful nuclear bombs.     A terrorist organization not heavily backed by a major state player is unlikely to be an able to build one.    What terrorists who get their hands on  fissile material what they can do is to build a crude sloppy dirty bomb that doesn’t initiate an actual nuclear explosion but use conventional explosives to pulverize the fissile material and contaminate the area with radioactive material.

Ok.

Boru