• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    suitcase nukes pretty easy to access for nations that have different friends than US.

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      2 hours ago

      They weren’t real and still aren’t. You can make a nuke small enough to fit in, say, a shell (and the US did), but the minimum critical mass is still way too heavy to carry around. Uranium and plutonium are both significantly denser than lead.

      It’s kind of wild you think any nuclear weapon would be “easy to access”.