The London Sunday Express is reporting that those wacky funsters from the former USSR, the KGB, have some rogue agents with some prankster tendencies and thought it would be jolly good fun to give some Nuke containing backpacks to Bin Laden.Its on the DrudgeReport. I hope it turns out to be all a big typo.Hale Berry was unavailable for comment at press time.

QuoteOriginally posted by: HamiltonThe London Sunday Express is reporting that those wacky funsters from the former USSR, the KGB, have some rogue agents with some prankster tendencies and thought it would be jolly good fun to give some Nuke containing backpacks to Bin Laden.q]Have nuclear bombs really been developed to such an extent that they can be carried in a backpack? I thought that the best single-person-delivered device any self respecting terrorist could hope for was a dirty bomb?Regards Veegan

QuoteOriginally posted by: Veegan<blockquote>Quote<hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>Hamilton</b></i>The London Sunday Express is reporting that those wacky funsters from the former USSR, the KGB, have some rogue agents with some prankster tendencies and thought it would be jolly good fun to give some Nuke containing backpacks to Bin Laden.q]Have nuclear bombs really been developed to such an extent that they can be carried in a backpack? I thought that the best single-person-delivered device any self respecting terrorist could hope for was a dirty bomb?Regards VeeganGoing out on a limb here, but i think backpack size is achievable. It's a technological problem, not fundamental -- just need to bring two blobs of uranium close enough to store up neutrons. Building reflector, choosing geometry, treating surfaces, good trigger explosion, etc would be key issues, rather than the amount of uranium. On a different note, Hamilton reminded me a story told by a wittness. He taught radioelectronics in some soviet military establishment where pilots of "friendly" nations learnt to fly. Anyways, of all people those were future iraqi pilots and naturally they had no clue of what he was talking about. Finally, he got too frustrated, went to the Big General and had the following dialogueMy Friend : Ivan Ivanovich, i cannot explain these people what an electron is. How do u expect us to teach them fly?Big General: How?! How many times do I need to tell you idiots how? You teach them so that without you they cannot take the plane off the ground...

>just need to bring two blobs of uranium close enough to store up neutrons. >Building reflector, choosing geometry, treating surfaces, good trigger >explosion, etc would be key issues, rather than the amount of uranium. that amount of uranium better have supercritical mass, otherwise it's notan atomic bomb, but rather a "dirty bomb"btw it is now believed that during the war German physicists incorrectly calculated the critical mass to be of the order of several tons, instead of kilograms,so they decided it was unpractical to try to build the bomb

I recall that the CIA used to have a nice business selling explosives on the black market.They'd buy it at wholesale rates where it is really quite cheap.Being good little boys they declared the profits in their accounts.Alas that fuckwit Carter got to hear about it and stopped them.The trick was that the CIA was doctoring the explosives to be unstable. It worked on the principle that people who bought explosives on the black market needed a dose of evolution to happen to them.DominiConnor