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[unbibium]

The single best thing about today is that it will prove that the suitcase nuke doesn't exist.

What more tempting target could there possibly be than an incoming, popular president, surrounded by millions of Americans packed into a tight space, and a nation that has put a lot of emotional chips into this pot?

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[nshoe.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter how tempting a target it would be. With the security in place there is no possible way to get such a device into close enough proximity.

Unshielded, such a device would be picked up by radiation detectors long before reaching effective range, and if you shielded it enough then it would be far too heavy to be carried into range. (and in either case it would be caught at the security checkpoints)

The reasons nobody uses suitcase nukes is not that they are not feasible. It is that they are not really any more effective than more conventional weaponry and are far more expensive and difficult to use.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.

Also, them who could make such a thing aren't necessarily the same who would use such a thing against civilians as a terror weapon, nor would they necessarily transfer it to same.

At any rate, the obsession with Obama's assassination/martyrdom has got to stop. He's just a guy, he's as likely to be murdered as any President, and he's got really good security.

[tamtrible.livejournal.com]

I suspect he's got at least *slightly* worse chances in that respect, as there's an entire new category of whackjobs that no prior president has had potentially gunning for him.
But slightly worse chance =/= foregone conclusion.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

well, I don't think the Klan has suitcase nukes. I think their technology tops out at fire, now that they no longer have the budget for rope.

[tamtrible.livejournal.com]

[snerk]
Well, they're (unfortunately) not the *only* white supremacist whackjobs out there.
But, yeah, more the lone-rifleman types than the suitcase nuke types.

[templeemc.livejournal.com]

This is a joke, right?