• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    suitcase nukes pretty easy to access for nations that have different friends than US.

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      6 hours ago

      They weren’t real and still aren’t. You can make a nuke small enough to fit in, say, a shell (and the US did), but the minimum critical mass is still way too heavy to carry around. Uranium and plutonium are both significantly denser than lead.

      It’s kind of wild you think any nuclear weapon would be “easy to access”.

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        9 minutes ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuclear_device

        both US and Russia had programs started in 1950s. Official denials aside, there is evidence they were made. At any rate, car sized, or truck sized nukes are both easier, and higher yield.

        Access from nation states cooperating with your nation state “can be made easy”. US has made everyone angry, and won’t know who hit them. A single nuclear detonation in US would collapse its government, currency and economy due to already being up against sustainable debt limit.