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      I mean you could microwave your lunch at your desk, this is big

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    Maybe a dirty bomb with nuclear materials, but an actual fission bomb on a vest? No. Never mind they don’t have the enriched fuel, never mind just building a working device would be extremely difficult for them and that would be large like the Hiroshima bomb.

    This is Iraq Weapons of Mass Distraction all over again. Fuck this administration.

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      The US made, in its dr. strangelove years, 2100 “davey crocket” backpacks that were 51lbs. The suicide vest is an arab insurgent tool, and meant to be much more discrete.

      Iran is pretty good at missiles, and 4 weeks ago, and for last 30 years, was supposedly 2 weeks away from a nuke, as well as having a thing against Israel.

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        yeah the idea that Iran would use humans as delivery mechanism for nuclear weapons is a form of racist fetishization. it’s maddening, this man. but then. i’m appalachian. i’m the hillbilly that racist carpet-baggging son of a bitch hayseed spoke ill of in his book. and i swear to GOD that man put soap in the cast iron skillet i’m gonna hit him in the face with

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        A backpack device is BIG. It could not be concealed like a suicide vest. It also requires nuclear materials (plutonium) and a specialty implosion design and triggers Iran does not have.

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      It is actually possible, though it would stretch the definition of “vest.” It’s not something that can really fit on a vest, but I suppose you could hide it in a fat suit, a wheelchair, or a fake pregnancy belly.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54

      The W54 was a 1 kiloton bomb that weighed a bit over 50 lbs. It was built to be a man-portable demolition charge. It’s certainly possible for something like that to be built in a way that could be concealed on your person.

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        They cannot build a W54. This would be an early prototype device and that would not fit on a vest. Iran only has enriched uranium, not plutonium (according to news reports). It takes a great deal more uranium than plutonium to build a bomb. About 65ish kilos of +90% enriched for a uranium bomb.

        The W54 is a shaped charge implosion device. To build a W54, they’d need plutonium. And the trigger to detonate shaped charges at the right time in the right order. Plus, they need a neutron moderator to limit criticality so it doesn’t detonate with the full potential of the nuclear material. This is all well beyond Iran’s capabilities.

        Russia could do it though. Probably China too. North Korea? I think not.

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        It’s not something that can really fit on a vest, but I suppose you could hide it in a fat suit, a wheelchair, or a fake pregnancy belly.

        Maybe that’s why people keep backing away from Trump. It’s not incontinence, it’s their dosimeter badges.

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    at this point, he’s just my mom’s facebook news feed in human form.

    … and unfortunately it’s working.

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      Well I’m not googling it and quite frankly I’m rather upset that you made a cultural reference that I didn’t catch. Good day sir!

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      AKA a snuke.

      And if what i learned from South Park is true, its entirely possible to sneak a snuke up your snizz.

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      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.

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      Hello Kitty Lunchbox Nukes! Get it done, people!

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    Iran could turn their front line soldiers into beings of pure energy and they could rip the life force right out of a tank.

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      Holy hell… Iran’s chalk full of Anime Protagonists

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    Why would anyone believe this? Who is ret*rded enough to believe this?

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      I doubt they’re actually doing it. But it is possible to build nuclear bombs that can be carried by a single person and that are concealable. The US has deployed such weapons in the past. And we managed to do it with 1950s technology.

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        He has a shootable face. Fuck fascists. He isn’t a political rival, or someone to be debated in the marketplace of ideas, he is my enemy, an existential threat who espouses every characteristic deplorable in humans, he is ideologically opposite of me in every way, and seeks to control or kill me and those like me, just like his child raping lunatic partner.

        Ban me for speaking truth and I’ll go somewhere else, heck, that’s why I just came here from reddit.

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    USA could develop a more fuckable couch, and ride us of one problem, but here we are.

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    JD Vance, also known as a couch fucker, could develop pubic hair within the next 15 years, endangering his aim while peeing as he won’t be able to find his micropenis anymore and won’t be able to shave it out of fear of shaving his micropenis off. Couches would finally be safe.

    Spread the word.