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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (236774)6/11/2005 1:38:43 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1571204
 
"I think the odds of the nuke getting through are much higher than 1 in 50."

Based on what? Assuming that the US is still cooperating with international agencies, acquiring a nuke from, say NK or Russia and shipping it to the US and placing it is going to make all kinds of ripples in the international scene. The organization required is far more than even Al Quaida is capable of.

The idea of NK doing it is a total non-starter. Kim Jong-Il prizes his skin way too highly to get involved with something like that. Dictators may not have a high regard for their own people, but they tend to prize their own.

As far as NK's nukes being primitive or overly large, count on it. It takes very precise machinery to make a small nuke with a good chance of going off. Equipment that NK lacks and has no way of developing. It is not like they have a history of doing precision work, nor was it ever likely that the US or the USSR would have ever given them the equipment.
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