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Pastimes : Nuke in a Box
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To: William H Huebl who started this subject11/12/2001 12:00:20 PM
From: Real Man  Read Replies (2) of 89
 
I think a portable nuke may just be a fantasy - uranium is a very heavy metal, and you need a lot of it to build a bomb. The fantasy presumably originates in RPG and other computer games - there are such devices in computer games... Now, a truck can possibly have a nuke concealed inside, but not a suitcase. One of the key things about a nuke is a "critical mass" - the mass of the bomb should exceed a critical value in order to blow up. Hydrogen bombs use other nuclear fusion reaction, but it has to ignited by an ordinary atomic bomb. I certainly have a very limited understanding how this works, but I think it is likely that portable nukes are impossible. If US does not have them, it is unlikely that the Russians had them.
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