Suitcase Nuke – Suitcase Bomb Information In case you EVER wondered about a suitcase bomb, or suitcase nuke. This is what they are like, supposedly.
Another portable weapon is a “backpack” bomb. The Soviet nuclear backpack system was made in the 1960s for use against NATO targets in time of war and consists of three “coffee can-sized” aluminum canisters in a bag. All three must be connected to make a single unit in order to explode. The detonator is about 6 inches long. It has a 3-to-5 kiloton yield, depending on the efficiency of the explosion. It’s kept powered during storage by a battery line connected to the canisters.
RFID could prevent a whole lot of lost luggage and more. You can’t track everybody. You can find a needle in the haystack if you have the right technology and know how to use it. It’s amazing how much luggage gets lost by the airlines. It’s a big security problem.
Once I saw a documentary where several former Soviet Union military just swore these briefcase nukes never existed, and then someone else went on to arguing they can’t be made – something to do with the volume of explosives required to start a fission reaction…
The NATO backpack nukes were supposedly a big backpack which weighed about 80 pounds and had a dialable yield. Any smaller than that was supposedly fantasy.
This this a joke? That diagram of a suitcase nuke is laughable. I am familiar with the inner works of real fission and fusion bombs, anyone who knows anything about fission or fusion reactors would snicker over that.
Bomb, yes. Fission? No. Fusion? No.