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Originally posted by crockett
I's a small nuke that can be set off by foot soldiers here is a link about it now if we had those in 1962 don't you think we probally have them smaller now? as a side not the ones in those pics have a rocket so it would be much smaller with out the rocket..
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It's not the technology that is the problem it's the yeild of the bomb, from the link you provided:
"The W54 warhead used on the Davy Crockett weighed just 51 pounds and was the smallest and lightest fission bomb (implosion type) ever deployed by the United States, with a variable explosive yield of 0.01 kilotons (equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, or two to four times as powerful as the ammonium nitrate bomb which destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995), or 0.02 kilotons-1 kiloton. A 58.6 pound variant?the B54?was used in the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a nuclear land mine deployed in Europe, South Korea, Guam, and the United States from 1964-1989."
Note the tiny yield of the device, a fertilizer bomb is easier to make and can be made larger. Note also the comparison to the Oklahoma City bomb, and THAT explosive has no casing or anything, it was just in plastic tubs.
A bomb of similar mass in a proper casing would be as or more powerful than a micro nuke and a zillion times easier to make.