RE: Palestine
October 20, 2023 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2023 at 12:50 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 19, 2023 at 2:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 19, 2023 at 2:38 pm)WinterHold Wrote: Since the U.S and Israel are the ones owning nukes, the bomb must be made by them.
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.