Originally posted by Iwunder
...a suicide bomber only needs the warhead, not the launch casing or the Recoiless Rifle, just simulate an impact on the percussion cap.
Percussion cap???? Now that's funny. What, you just hit it with a hammer? FYI, the M388 was time fused.
Originally posted by Iwunder But by the way Tritium is a gas used for detection not detonation as your post implies, and I wouldnt mind
seeing your research otherwise.
Do you think there is only one use for tritium? As I stated previously,
All Russian nukes used tritium to boost the yield. Both fission and
fusion types. The yield was regulated by the size of the tritium pit. Google 'tritium boosting' if you want to know how it works, but don't try to
tell me that is not used to control the yield in a nuclear bomb.
Originally posted by Iwunder Another question for you is dont you think that if a 51 pound warhead was developed almost 45 years ago
does that not concern you today what may have been developed in between then and now?, It does not take a nuclear scientist to arrive at the potential
answer for that question.
The point is not whether small nukes have been developed. It is your post about the Lebed claims that 100 "suitcase nukes" were stolen and are now
in terrorist hands. This is pure BS. Period.
They would no longer be functional, even if the story was true. There's about a hundred reasons
for this, besides the ones I've already pointed out. Not the least of which is simply that the KGB did not posess any nukes, they were all under the
control of the 12th GUMO.
The mission of portable nuclear devices would have been explosions in the enemy's rear position during or just prior to the outbreak of war for the
purpose of disrupting the infrastructure as well as sabotaging the enemy's command and communications. This directly points to the MOD Spetsnaz as
the likely custodian of these weapons since this use of the devices closely matches its type of missions. Spetsnaz representatives flatly denied
possession of nuclear weapons, but their statements might refer to the fact that in peacetime, nuclear weapons remained in the custody of the 12th
GUMO and were released to troops at a special command.
BTW, the description of "3 aluminum coffee can sized cannisters" with a detonator and a battery is a joke. Anyone that knows the even very basics of
a nuke bomb design would see that right off.


If you insist on perpetuating this silly story, that's your business. Journalists have a certain habit of misrepresenting the facts on systems they
don't understand, which leads gullible people to buy into stories that are patently absurd. My advice to you is take most of what you hear on the
news and 60 Minutes with a grain of salt.
I'm not trying to be critical, but you come off as someone very young who is trying to look more knowledgable than you are.
Have a nice day.