Re: Bin Laden's attempts to acquire nuclear materials

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 00:33:32 MDT


Do you have some URLs backing this up, one URL I found mentioned
he may have bought "warheads" and planned to retrofit them into small
packages, the other other URL mentioned "suitcase nukes". Everything
I've seen points to smaller than van sized nukes originally manufactured
by Russia, not homemade.

Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> 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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