We hear all about al-quaida and the problems they pose to our national security but we never hear anything about "lone wolf's", crazy US born, anti-society terrorist. THe Oklahoma bombing was the result of just one lone wolf.

when a kid in his shed could build one.

Thankfully its still a little more involved than that.

Any site you find that tells you its easy to make nukes tends to be either lying or a joke.

lol, the process of building a nuke is alot more complicated than putting some high-grade uranium and plutonium together with a trigger explosive. You forget that these are heavy metals that give off radiation, and just handling them can be harmful/fatal. Add to that fact that there are sattelites that can track radiation from space. Also do you think UnitedNuclear will sell a hunk of material to just anyone? I doubt they would sell it to someone unless the order is on company letterhead (Los Alamos, Sandia, etc) and the person making the order holds a phD in some field related to nuclear technology.

I don't get why people always look to nukes for the "big bang" of terrorist acts. You need not look further than our computerized infrastucture and how much we depend on it to see a huge ripe target. Blaster and Slammer prooved how damaging a simple computer virus could be, and hopefully the IT field has taken that to heart.

It really isnt that hard to build a nuclear bomb if you were motivated and had technical skills, the hard part is finding some weapons grade plutonium, they dont sell the stuff at walmart.

Originally posted by jrod
We hear all about al-quaida and the problems they pose to our national security but we never hear anything about "lone wolf's", crazy US born, anti-society terrorist. THe Oklahoma bombing was the result of just one lone wolf.

It was more than one "lone wolf".

Yes, it's true; there is much more involved with building a nuke than you think. I've seen the designs on the FAS website, and they're wrong. Totally.

Unless you have actually taken part in building one, you can only guess about the technical design of the particular nuke you are intending to build.

It's alot more complicated than you think.

The most important thing for a prospective nuclear bomber is contacts. It is still difficult to get the necessary facilities and all the other odds-and-ends that you need to build the thing, even before you start worrying about the plutonium or urainium.
Point of fact, no one has done it yet. There are plenty of groups out there who have the capability to build and deploy so called 'suitcase' nukes, but - so far at least - no one has been stupid enough to try it.
I seriously doubt that I will ever see a terrorist group detonate a nuclear weapon in my lifetime, it is more likely to be G.W. who's going to be the culprit.

I am afraid that its probably easier to just pay some million bucks to russian generals to get an abomb on the black-market. They built more than 10.000 and I doubt they have them all destroyed or still in safe custody - some will be in harmful hands.

Somebody said that satellites can track radiation. I think that's true but as far as I remember only if the radiation is already the result of an explosion. If you cover the bomb with lead it will be nearly no radition at all.

What I fear most is just a simple computer error. Not the Windows blue screens but some really unforseen mistakes in something related to the nukes.

Some of you people talk about buying from black market or internet....

WELL I BET THE GOVERNMENT IS WATCHING MOST OF THOSE PLACES!

more like ALL them places

Originally posted by Dmsoldier
more like ALL them places

Ill give 10 Cents (Of a Euro..)

To anybody that delivers me a backpack nuke..

I would give more..

But i seem to be broke..