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#21 narboza22

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Posted 08 November 2007 - 06:30 PM

You don't need a missile to deliver a nuclear weapon, just put it in the back of a van with a lead lined interior and then drive up to your target.
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Posted 08 November 2007 - 07:05 PM

and get stopped on one of the borders, nice plan :)

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Posted 08 November 2007 - 07:08 PM

Which borders are we talking about? Israel's? Do the border guards there search every vehicle that comes through?
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Posted 08 November 2007 - 07:12 PM

either that or blow them apart. i can bet that a layer of lead won't be the best way of hiding such a tool from one of the worlds best nations on security.

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Posted 08 November 2007 - 07:27 PM

Especially if it's coming from Iran :)

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Posted 08 November 2007 - 07:37 PM

A) Lead does in fact mask radiation, so it would hide the evidence of a nuclear weapon.

and B) If you think the borders are too secure, then put it in a cargo container and ship it. I know for a fact that only a tiny percentage of those are inspected before they are allowed to enter a country.
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Posted 08 November 2007 - 08:33 PM

lead is also known to be incredible heavy. any car that looks suspiciously heavy compared to the size of the load is automatically suspicious. also, there is no such thing as 100% radioactivity-proof shielding. the lead itself would take up radioactive materials that the sensors would pick up.

i remember a story i was told once. someone working in a swedish nuclear power plant went to work, and as they were going inside the nuclear material sensors went beserk. nobody really understood why the sensors would go off on a guy that was on his way inside the plant, because its meant to check if people from the inside got any radioactive materials on them while working. this was around the 26th-27th of april in 1986.


and to containers? most ports these days got radioactivity sensors because they are very aware of the risks of nuclear materials coming through ports.

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Posted 08 November 2007 - 08:44 PM

Its incredibly naive to think that borders and ports are secure because "100% radioactivity-proof shielding." It doesn't have to be 100% to get past sensors. Trust me, people smuggle drugs, money, weapons, and even other people across international borders everyday. Its more than possible to do the same with a nuclear weapon.
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Posted 08 November 2007 - 10:47 PM

Lets not forget its not small and very heavy. will they risk to smuggle a nuclear wepon which was extremely hard and expensive to make so someone finds it in your van i na random check? eh dont think so.

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Posted 09 November 2007 - 01:20 AM

Nuclear weapons can be fit inside suitcases and carried by a single person. They are not the huge bombs that were dropped on Japan 60 years ago.
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Posted 09 November 2007 - 02:28 AM

Nuclear weapons can be fit inside suitcases and carried by a single person. They are not the huge bombs that were dropped on Japan 60 years ago.


you whatched too much james bond movies...

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Posted 09 November 2007 - 02:33 AM

Actually there are suitcase nukes, small tactical ones but surely Iran wouldn't have that kinda tech.

I'd picture more a truck bomb close to a large US compund in Iraq. How close would one actually have to get to destroy a base with a tactical sized nuke?

Even that would cause massive retaliation, we aren't stupid, we'd know where it came from.

Though a dirty bomb tracked to Al-Quada might provide that cover.

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Posted 09 November 2007 - 06:01 PM

its also easy enough to trace the radioactive material back to its creators once you know where it is. tactical nukes have to be pretty damn close to its target to be effective. a basic SADM which theoretically could be carried around has around 1-2kiloton payload, and is perhaps twice/three times as effective as the Oklahoma bombings were.

the bombs dropped on japan were around 13-15 kilotons, and thats probably what you want to have before a nuclear attack is defined as a proper nuclear attack.

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Posted 09 November 2007 - 07:06 PM

Somehow I'd imagine the people under the mushroom cloud would consider it a nuclear attack regardless of the kilotonage. Besides, the Oklahoma City bombing was a huge blast, that's nothing to scoff at. It you could reproduce that kind of destruction with a suitcase instead of a big truck, then you have a very potent weapon.
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Posted 09 November 2007 - 10:16 PM

any explosion big enough gets a mushroom cloud.

besides, the smallest briefcase nuke is at least around 25 kilos, and that is the core only. the original briefcase bombs needed two people to be deployed. one with the explosives and one with the detonating tools. its not something you carry with ease in one hand. also, the lighter the tools the less radioactivity-protection there will be, thus the easier it will be to detect.

anyway, if it gets you off the track that you have to smuggle it into a country, most of the middle-eastern countries have acceptable missiles that would reach more than far enough to get into most of the middle-eastern countries and some European. the question is, why would they willingly do that if they know the retaliation will be completely asymmetrical? unless they just feel like doing the first national suicide theres not any good reasons for it.

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Posted 10 November 2007 - 04:27 AM

any explosion big enough gets a mushroom cloud.

besides, the smallest briefcase nuke is at least around 25 kilos, and that is the core only. the original briefcase bombs needed two people to be deployed. one with the explosives and one with the detonating tools. its not something you carry with ease in one hand. also, the lighter the tools the less radioactivity-protection there will be, thus the easier it will be to detect.

anyway, if it gets you off the track that you have to smuggle it into a country, most of the middle-eastern countries have acceptable missiles that would reach more than far enough to get into most of the middle-eastern countries and some European. the question is, why would they willingly do that if they know the retaliation will be completely asymmetrical? unless they just feel like doing the first national suicide theres not any good reasons for it.

http://www.telegraph...4/16/do1609.xml
http://www.frif.com/new2005/shi.html
http://primarysource...the-hidden-imam
http://www.iranian.c...Myth/index.html

The list goes on why they would nuke another nation. It's right out of Lord of the Rings, Staw Wars, or christians believing Jesus will return at Armageddon...

It would be laughable except that some world leaders are making descisions based on these myths. :rolleyes:

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Posted 14 November 2007 - 10:05 PM

well if the list goes longer than the hidden imam, i am sure you would be able to mention some of those things too? :p

the hidden imam reminds me of the Thule society. small cult that has supported some greater evil, but at the same time too much credit is given to them for how much influence they really got. face it, if we are going to war against Iran because "we got information that says that a few politicians in Iran has mentioned the hidden imam"... personally i would say thats grasping for straws. at least the argument that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction sounds better than "their leader seems to be a part of a cult that believes in the end of the world and wants to make it happen".

secondly, if they really want to try to make the world go under by dropping a nuke on someone, let them. at the least, the world opinion would antagonize them so much they wouldnt be able to do shit, most likely they would be carpet-bombed for months, and quite likely someone would counter-attack with nukes, but hopefully people are sane enough not to do that.
what i am saying is if Iran nukes someone first with their own homebrew, its not going to be enough to make the world go under, and its going to cause retaliation on them that makes anyone else in the neighborhood think twice about doing the same.

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Posted 14 November 2007 - 11:37 PM

well if the list goes longer than the hidden imam, i am sure you would be able to mention some of those things too? :p

You asked why Iran would launch a nuke. So I posted relevant links. :)

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Posted 15 November 2007 - 01:22 AM

so besides some non-canon(not written about in the koran, a bit like paradise lost, Dante's Inferno or other christian based fiction texts?) mythical cult, there are no good reasons for Iran to use a nuke? alright then, no more worries.

as said before, if they throw the first rock, thats not going to help their nation regain greatness. if they want to blow themselves up indirectly, let them throw the first rock. i believe a certain philosophy on war goes something like "avoid it at all costs, but if dragged into it, fight with all your might". the law of world opinion works in the way that if someone attacks you first, you pretty much get a free pass to attack them without repercussions.

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Posted 15 November 2007 - 06:55 AM

Perhaps they counting that it will start a world war 3 and then everyone gets nuked :p living in a big city such as New York i dont want that to happen since New York will be one of first targets XD

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