Re: Bin Laden's attempts to acquire nuclear materials

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 23:59:20 MDT


On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Brian Atkins wrote:

> So he may have as many as 20 "suitcase nukes".

Van nukes. Making them go boom is easy, making them light, small and
high-yield is not. Don't expect them to be carred by people, but you could
put them on wheels, and push them around. E.g. to get them high into a
skyscraper, to approximate an airburst. Or, using a Cessna.

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