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2006-11-02 Home Front: WoT

Terrorist could build nuke inside US for $5,433,000

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Posted by Jackal 2006-11-02 10:49|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yes, and if they spent that amount of money on lethal industrial chemicals and a distribution system, they could wipe out 10 major metropolitan areas, which would remain uninhabitably contaminated for decades.

And it wouldn't even appear that what they were doing was illegal until it happened.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-02 13:21|| 2006-11-02 13:21|| Front Page Top

#2 And if they were really evil, they could invest in Phillip Morris. You know, cigarettes.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-02 13:22|| 2006-11-02 13:22|| Front Page Top

#3 And if they were really evil, they could invest in Phillip Morris. You know, cigarettes.

Good point, 'moose. Of course, if they did that they would alienate the leftists.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-11-02 14:46|| 2006-11-02 14:46|| Front Page Top

#4 My questions for the writers of the articles are : 1) Where the hell are you going to get enriched U-235 or Plutonium at? Not like you can pick it up at Wal-Mart; and 2) Where are you going to get the specialty electronic switches for the explosives from? Not like you can get them at Costco.
Other than that, who is going to machine the radioactive components to spec?

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-11-02 17:28|| 2006-11-02 17:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember, North Korea has an entire country with a military and access to all sorts of restricted technology, and they produced a fissle. Terrorist groups are much more likely to purchase a nuke from someone and use it, then make one. And considering the fallout fingerprints we have on record, not many countries are insane enough to risk a MAD response for terrorists.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-11-02 17:31|| 2006-11-02 17:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Where the hell are you going to get enriched U-235 or Plutonium at?

Wolf, it's the old recipe for rabbit stew.

Step 1: catch a rabbit.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-11-02 17:57|| 2006-11-02 17:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmm, so what this is really saying is that a pissed off American group with time and money on their hands could build one easily.

And FedEx it to some worthy site overseas. :p

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2006-11-02 22:06|| 2006-11-02 22:06|| Front Page Top

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