There is a minimum-amount of fission-fuel required, AND there is a minimum-amount of conventional-explosives required to compress the fission-fuel until it goes supercritical.
That detonator isn’t going to be small-enough to hide in a vest.
Absolute disinformation.
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It is stupid for even more reasons than that. I’ve thought about it back when North Korea had pretend nuclear suicide bombers march on their military parade.
Even if somehow they manage to cram one in a backpack that is carriable by a person, there is no advantage whatsoever given the blast radius. You will have to use a vehicle of sorts to get near the enemy and more importantly away from your friendlies anyway. Whatever distance you can cover on foot afterwards won’t make much of a difference. Might as well make it vehicle borne.
Also the whole point of a suicide vest is to be able to get in the middle of an unaware crowd or near your target before using it. With a nuke you don’t need to be in the middle of a targeted crowd or get that close to your target to have an effect.
JD should stick to fucking couches, not nuclear physics.
I really wonder what happened when making that couch. The left one being on piece and then the right one having a seam between the bottom and the “pillow”. Thinking it’s either AI or some home project that didn’t pan out as planned.
I was thinking maybe it’s a sectional missing a section, with the part on the left being a sticky-outy bit for your legs that doesn’t have a back, and the part on the right expecting another piece on the side towards the camera.
Or AI.
This is the same JD Vance that repeatedly falsely claimed immigrants were eating cats and dogs in his home state, is it not?
I’m not saying a nuclear suicide vest couldn’t be done. I’m just saying, JD Vance has claimed lots of things.
Trump is the one who said that. It was during a debate leading up to the 2024 election.
On national TV. And was immediately called out on it. And doubled down. And people still voted for that pile of waste.
Same debate where he said “I have concepts of a plan”. Whatever happened to his healthcare plan?
Vance said it too. Pushed it way harder actually.
Normally I get angry at these pathological liars but this lie is so absurdly stupid that it’s actually funny.
Imagine someone driving their van to a parking lot near the white house and then going “Welp, better strap on my suicide nuke that will obliterate the entire city. I see no other way of doing this.”
I mean, people do strap on conventional explosive vests and set them off in crowds. That is not the absurd part.
I think their point is that the van was a much easier storage vessel, with room and penetration power. Getting out of the van and walking 30 feet has miniscule change on the effects of a munition that’s blast radius and fallout are so large.
The entire idea of a vest/backpack/portable device would be more so you can get behind enemy lines by say parachute or such. Although there is no point of a parachute as you don’t need to cushion your fall, and no need of the person if someone was already letting you leave said flying device.
If lemmy had an equivilent of retweeting, I would.
The Iran war is worse than the fucking Epstein files you weirdo
I don’t disagree, but let me direct your attention to Exhibit A:
She isn’t wrong, with only one addition; he will take down the entire world as well. Clearly.
Why would having it be in a vest be useful, so it’s concealed until you’re really close? Like, it’s a fucking nuke, it’s not like you need to get in particularly close for it to have the intended effect.
Like, he’s just mashing the image of a suicide bomber in with the fear of nukes to strike as many “panic! danger! scary!” notes as possible.
A tactical nuke within a nuclear bunker could be useful if you wanted to target people important enough to be in that bunker? Perhaps he had the thought of doing such…
so would any explosive device, or chemical agent, or two smaller assassins in a trench coat. If they do go the nuke vest route, I hope they put a bunch of light graphics on it to be really edge lord and scary with it
Just a reminder that the 9/11 attackers did it with knives.
Kinda wild, I vividly remember getting on a plane to Disney with my grandparents as a child (Pre 9/11). My grandpa had a swiss army knife on him when we went through security. I asked him how he was able to get that through, and he said it’s a small knife; nothing to worry about. It’s legal as long as it’s smaller than my palm. I said what if someone brought a knife like that and stabbed the pilot. He laughed it off and said I watch too much TV. Then 9/11 happened and guess how they did it? How did 8 year old me have more sense than whoever was running airports in those days?
Thats…not how nuclear arms work.
Isn’t the smallest effective nuke the Davy Crocket? Pretty sure it’s warhead is still the size of a large hardcase suitcase.
If the US is saying Iran could do it, the US has probably already figured it out. Fallout is getting to be too damn real
Correction an Appalachian born yuppie with no technical knowledge claims they could do it. Unless Vance got bored and went through data on the nuclear arsenal then it’s probably a safe bet that he’s making shit up. Tactical nukes are a thing and backpack nukes are somewhat possible by an army definition of portable, but a nuclear suicide vest is just fucking asanine. Frankly speaking given the general purge of everyone with competency and the general ratfucked nature of these waste of biological matter I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the nuclear arsenal isn’t even fully understood anymore because everyone competent was fired or fucked off.
Suitcase nukes exist. But not in vest form.
AKA a snuke.
And if what i learned from South Park is true, its entirely possible to sneak a snuke up your snizz.
Hello Kitty Lunchbox Nukes! Get it done, people!
They are much larger than a suitcase, extremely heavy, and developing them took decades. If Iran had +90% enriched uranium, their likely first attempt would be a gun style bomb like Little Man. Much easier design than shaped charges, not least because of trigger timing. But that’s a large bomb. The Enola Gay was the largest bomber in the US fleet at the time, and it just barely carried the bomb for Hiroshima.
I am aware it was much bigger than a suitcase. But it was portable by one person.
When will this lying sack of shit starting painting his face orange?
His tongue is already stained orange
A new American tradition: all incoming Presidents must paint their entire body orange
…have a mushroom shaped micro penis, lie profusely with every exhale, shit themselves several times a day, and find themselves busy work being the president of Venezuela and robbing America blind.
Resumes now being accepted.
Nuclear terrorism might be a thing, but I seriously doubt that the easiest way to do it is nuclear suicide vests. Miniaturizing nuclear warheads is a pain. If you were going to do something like that, you’d be better off doing something akin to a truck bomb.
Much more likely would be a dirty bomb. Just a regular bomb with some nuclear material that it spreads. The nuclear material isn’t the bomb itself, but used exclusively for the exposure effects. You don’t even need plutonium or uranium for this. There are plenty of other radiological sources to make dirty bombs. Old radiographic medical equipment for instance.
There are hundreds of thousands of orphaned sources in the world. Several of them have caused the worst radiological incidents in history.
The fact we don’t see this already is quite surprising.
I’m kind of skepitical of the “dirty bomb” idea. Frankly, it sounds like a load of bullshit, because of the πr2 thing. Namely, if you want to irradiate and area to a sufficient extent to cause immediate radiation sickness, then keeping it concentrated is your best bet. A very small bomb, at most.
The other extreme would be a huge bomb to spread radioactive material over, say, a city. At which point it barely raises the radioactivity above background levels. Or at least doesn’t cause immediately apparent effects. Imagine terrorists issuing a statement like, “Sure, it doesn’t seem so bad TODAY, but wait 'til you see the slight bump in cancer rates in 20 years.”
Indeed, on looking it up, I see that the experts are skeptical, too, and tests conducted by Israel didn’t find much effectiveness. That could be why we haven’t seen one used.
That’s a big vest. Should be easy to spot.
For reference, the SADM portable nuke was made to be carried by paratroopers into enemy territory. 4 soldier would each carry one 18kg part of the weapon.
A 72kg vest sounds quite the chonker.
This shit again? Last time it was a brief case dirty bomb.
Also known as a snuke
