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![]() "Dav1936531" wrote in message ... From: (Peter Stickney) Hardly "Suitcase Nukes". More like "Steamer Trunk Nukes" or "Footlocker Nukes". Our smallest nuke, the Small Atomic Demolition Munition, wasn't really amenable to being carried about like luggage. Doesn't really matter how tiny (or big) the things are. If they fit in an SUV and can be left on the street and detonated like a regular car bomb, they will suit Al-Qaeda's purpose I think the term "suitcase nuke" just refers to an free floating small sized demolition munition that can be used independent from some type of delivery system such as an aircraft or artillery piece. No, the term "suitcase nuke" became a common (and misunderstood) term when Alexander Lebed came out with his since-discredited claims that the GRU/KGB had built numerous very small devices that could supposedly fit into a briefcase/suitase size satchel and of which some number were supposedly unaccounted for. One congressional committee even saw an extraordinary "mockup" of this fantastic "weapon". None of this has ever panned out as being based in real fact. Brooks Dave |
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