Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance
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If lemmy had an equivilent of retweeting, I would.
The Iran war is worse than the fucking Epstein files you weirdo
I don't disagree, but let me direct your attention to Exhibit A:
She isn't wrong, with only one addition; he will take down the entire world as well. Clearly.
I agree, he is a type of person to anchor on to anything that can sustain his own egocentric power. In fact, the time ticks till he decides that releasing another batch of Epstein files would prove advantageous to distract people from the genocide and war crimes he is commiting.
I do hope it's not a competition.
Oh yeah, the black and white world, where only one thing can be bad.
On a scale of "accusations made of child prostitution" versus the war crime of aggression, painting the latter as a mere distraction from the former is insane.
Did I stutter?
There is a minimum-amount of fission-fuel required, AND there is a minimum-amount of conventional-explosives required to compress the fission-fuel until it goes supercritical.
That detonator isn't going to be small-enough to hide in a vest.
Absolute disinformation.
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JD should stick to fucking couches, not nuclear physics.
I really wonder what happened when making that couch. The left one being on piece and then the right one having a seam between the bottom and the "pillow". Thinking it's either AI or some home project that didn't pan out as planned.
I was thinking maybe it's a sectional missing a section, with the part on the left being a sticky-outy bit for your legs that doesn't have a back, and the part on the right expecting another piece on the side towards the camera.
Or AI.
I mean, yeah, the Davie Crockett could fit in a back pack, a really big back pack
It is stupid for even more reasons than that. I've thought about it back when North Korea had pretend nuclear suicide bombers march on their military parade.
Even if somehow they manage to cram one in a backpack that is carriable by a person, there is no advantage whatsoever given the blast radius. You will have to use a vehicle of sorts to get near the enemy and more importantly away from your friendlies anyway. Whatever distance you can cover on foot afterwards won't make much of a difference. Might as well make it vehicle borne.
Also the whole point of a suicide vest is to be able to get in the middle of an unaware crowd or near your target before using it. With a nuke you don't need to be in the middle of a targeted crowd or get that close to your target to have an effect.
I mean, the W54 was small enough to be carried by a person and I don't think anyone wants even a 1kt device going off near them. So it's within the realm of possibility even if it does strain credulity as an actual goal Iran was working toward (let alone a solid justification for this bullshit).
Edit: the W54 weighed 51lb (23 kg).
That wouldn't be a suicide vest, though; it'd be a suicide fat suit.
Pussies.
"watch closely, because I'm only going to show you once"
He’s talking about a dirty bomb. And, technically, that is quite possible and doable by the Iranians.
It’s a stupid assertion, yes; but the engineering is plausible.
Go rub yerself against bad american people!
Imagine pulling the trigger and you have to endure radiation sickness for days or weeks before you get your virgins, smh.
Do you actually need conventional explosives? I had the impression all they do is reliably stick the big hunks of radioactive material together in a big bomb that needs to be delivered at high speeds and detonate automatically. Wouldn't it be enough to quickly shove a cylinder into a bigger core, perhaps with a motor or even a tensioned spring?
That of course doesn't waive the issue of the amount of fissile material, or the fact it needs to be all put together (you can't spread it around a vest)
It's not just reliably sticking the two subcritical halves of fissile material together, but keeping them there via inertia long enough for enough of the mass to go critical before the much more minor reactions blow them apart via melting/vaporizing the nearest surfaces.
If you had to halves of an atomic bomb core and just clacked them together mechanically you'd wind up with a lot of heat and a big old pulse of radiation, and if you were the one holding this device you probably would indeed die. But there would be no nuclear explosion in the sense we think of it as compared to actual functional nuclear weapons. At best you'd wind up with an energy release equivalent to a few pounds of TNT, which would be much easier to replicate with... a few pounds of TNT.
This has been explored to death, e.g. via the Demon Core experiments, where a critical mass of fissile material was brought together via manual means and the end result was the release of enough radiation to kill at least two people (albeit certainly not killing them instantly) but no explosion.
If I'm not mistaken, in case of the demon core accidents, the reaction was always interrupted by the experimenter frantically separating the two halves, right? Doesn't mean it would detonate, but using it as an example of why it wouldn't doesn't seem to check out if I'm remembering correctly.
The point is that even bringing the parts together until a critical state was reached, the material did not explode. If the Demon Core were left in its critical state like that but otherwise undisturbed, it surely would have melted but would not have gone off like an atom bomb.
To my understanding, you can't really do more than bring the parts together in a compact arrangement and keep them like that, so if the demon core would stay together (and not, say, get blown apart by the release of energy), then the issue would be a lack of fissile material (or reflectors), no?
See also an image of a nuclear bomb design (I think Little Boy) from Wikipedia, which illustrates the idea of sliding a rod of fissile material into a hollow cylinder, though the bomb did it in reverse. I think the design might be obsolete due to inefficiency, and it might need the tough shell to hold it together (and act as a neutron reflector).
There's a difference between meltdown, inefficient/low explosion, & efficient high-explosion.
The neutron-emission's cascading only when the critical-mass is in small-enough a volume,
& the heat it's producing is making it blow-apart.
( I've seen video of 1 million watts of heat being produced by a 1-cubic-metre reactor-core, in a water-cooled reactor.. the heat the reaction produces makes the fuel-rods incandescent, or at-least that's the way it looked, in that video: it may have been Cherenkhov-radiation that I was seeing, or from gamma-rays being converted down to light or something.. dunno.. )
the more efficient you want the fission-reaction to be, the longer you have to force it together, while it's blowing-up.
The explosives are required, for bombs, ttbomk.
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This is the same JD Vance that repeatedly falsely claimed immigrants were eating cats and dogs in his home state, is it not?
I'm not saying a nuclear suicide vest couldn't be done. I'm just saying, JD Vance has claimed lots of things.
Trump is the one who said that. It was during a debate leading up to the 2024 election.
Vance said it too. Pushed it way harder actually.
On national TV. And was immediately called out on it. And doubled down. And people still voted for that pile of waste.
Same debate where he said "I have concepts of a plan". Whatever happened to his healthcare plan?
This shit again? Last time it was a brief case dirty bomb.
Also known as a snuke
Was that this bad guy in Episode 7?
That's a lot more feasible. It's not about the initial damage, but the consequences and the effect on public confidence in security. Which isn't that high anyway.
'Iran could develop hulk technology and teleport directly into US schools!' JD Vance
As if they would ever be concerned about potential violence in schools
Does it negatively affect my billionaire friends? ...is the only question they care about
If it might lower the number of children they could sexually assault, Republicans will definitely care.
‘Iran could develop time travel and kill Milton Friedman!’ JD Vance
‘Iran could develop zero point energy and antigravity tech to leave the planet to die in the hellscape we’ve gleefully created while they travel the cosmos!’ JD Vance
‘Iran could develop couches that chop off dicks!’ JD Vance
Well we know that you can teleport to a waffle house
Iran could turn their front line soldiers into beings of pure energy and they could rip the life force right out of a tank.
Holy hell...... Iran's chalk full of Anime Protagonists
POWER OVERWHELMING
These fuckers are so inept at propaganda, it's kinda sad.
Dont underestimate the stupidity of their target audience, and the arrogant complacency of his opposition. Its why we have him in the first place. Twice. Half of the second group is still probably going to sit out the primaries and midterms.
Are they really inept if 40% of the country believe every word?
Yes.
Yeah where are the fantastic usa spindoctors? I mean I hate them as much as anyone else but it's curious they are no longer around.
Maybe just maybe the trump administration thinks they are so smart and don't need them? Huffing their own propaganda?
DOGE fired them.
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.
I'd rather it not be visible to the public as I'm a member of the public
Loooool fixed the typo xD
Thanks!
USA could develop a more fuckable couch, and ride us of one problem, but here we are.
Just a reminder that the 9/11 attackers did it with knives.
Kinda wild, I vividly remember getting on a plane to Disney with my grandparents as a child (Pre 9/11). My grandpa had a swiss army knife on him when we went through security. I asked him how he was able to get that through, and he said it's a small knife; nothing to worry about. It's legal as long as it's smaller than my palm. I said what if someone brought a knife like that and stabbed the pilot. He laughed it off and said I watch too much TV. Then 9/11 happened and guess how they did it? How did 8 year old me have more sense than whoever was running airports in those days?
Pre-9/11 security in American airports was wild to me. There had been a load of plane hijackings in Europe before my time so it was always fairly locked down but I distinctly remember San Diego airport you could basically walk in off the street and nearly be at the plane when people were disembarking in the late 90s.
I used to get really really high as a teenager and go walk around the airport and people watch as a teenager. No one checked shit. And this was at one of the busiest airports in the world.
Dude, I heard this story once about a kid that got separated from his family at the airport, they went to Miami and he ended up in NYC.
Yeah we had a handful of hijackings in the US too.
We didn't care until brown people did it.
It had much less to do with the attackers race, and much more to do with the fact that prior to 9/11, aircraft hijackings were primarily done for ransom, not to use the plane as a weapon for a mass casualty event.
Yeah, before that it was uncommon enough and the stakes were so low that it was probably just cheaper to comp everyone involved and call it the cost of doing business.
I accidentally brought handcuffs into a flight on August 2001. The TSA agent who found them asked what I planned to do with them.
Being a teenager, the answer was obviously that I kept them in my jacket to pull them out and show my high-school friends how quirky and cool I was. But being a teenager, I didn’t realize how endearing that response would be, so I blurted out the first thing that came to mind, which was somehow better and worse.
“I’m visiting my girlfriend!”
She gave me a slow blink and said “Well, alright then, go get your freak on!” (Or something of a similar sentiment - time has robbed me of the exact phasing.)
Airport security pre-9/11 was pretty horrendous. Hijackings were surprisingly common compared to today, but the difference was that it was usually for a ransom and/or demanding that the plane go somewhere else. This led to a general policy of just going along with hijackers and letting the authorities deal with it later. The most famous example of this kind of scenario is D. B. Cooper.
An important thing to remember about Aviation in general is that every lesson is written in blood. This leads me to PSA 1771. In 1987 a disgruntled former airline employee got on plane, shot his boss and the flight crew, then intentionally crashed the plane killing everyone else. This incident was entirely caused by the poor security practices at the time. The perpetrator's employee ID hadn't been taken back when he was fired and because he had those credentials he was able to get on the plane without being searched.
"Where do you wanna go man?"
"Right where this plane was meant to go FOUR HOURS AGO"
The problem wasn't the knife regulation. We should allow such tiny knives on planes. They're harmless. You can go to a fancy restaurant in the airport and get served steak with a steak knife. You can bring an object with a glass piece in it, smash the glass once you're passed security, and have a small bladed weapon that way. You can bring in dull metal and file into a sharp edge on the tile of the floor of the family bathroom prison shive style. It's trivially easy to get such a small bladed weapon inside the security cordon. Hell, some people have finger nails that are more dangerous than those knives.
The real impactful change after 9/11 was reinforcing the cockpit doors, and putting in regulations requiring them to remain closed and locked during flight. That was the real impactful change. The TSA's just security theater.
Both you and your grandpa were right. But you both missed the real solution.
@Raiderkev Everyone's a genius in hindsight. But you don't see anyone bragging about all the times they were wrong.
Very true
Box cutters
Only because they were still 1 year away from antimatter explosion vests
Why would having it be in a vest be useful, so it’s concealed until you’re really close? Like, it’s a fucking nuke, it’s not like you need to get in particularly close for it to have the intended effect.
Like, he’s just mashing the image of a suicide bomber in with the fear of nukes to strike as many “panic! danger! scary!” notes as possible.
A tactical nuke within a nuclear bunker could be useful if you wanted to target people important enough to be in that bunker? Perhaps he had the thought of doing such...
so would any explosive device, or chemical agent, or two smaller assassins in a trench coat. If they do go the nuke vest route, I hope they put a bunch of light graphics on it to be really edge lord and scary with it
Maybe JD wants a nuclear death though.
he wants to be able to visit the local gloryholes whenever he wants and not be judged by which side he is on
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.
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.
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.
An Atomic Demolition Munition was nearly the size of a 55-gallon drum and came in two(?) pieces -- the weapon itself and the equipment to detonate it -- for making it easier to transport.
The SADM is 4 pieces, each weighing 18kg.
Nobody's walking around with a nuke vest. Why bother? Bomb vests are made so you can walk into a crowded place. With a nuke, just drive it in a truck in the targeted neighborhood.
This is just Vance trying to scare some support into the disaster that Trump started to make us forget about Epstein.
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
Soap is fine as long as you have a complete seasoning.
yeah but you just know he'd put an old cast iron dutch oven straight in the dishwashes and then the cupboard
he whistles in the woods at night and in the house in the day
he painted his backdoor blue
he shoots birds at the window with a bb gun
...whats wrong with a blue backdoor?
appalachian folklore. it invites vile spirits into your home
FWIW, wp:Suitcase nuclear device.
Sounds like US should bomb Israel or JD Vance. NYC terrorist plot, and Assassination/intimidation attempt against peace intermediaries in Pakistan... just yesterday. NATO has essentially confirmed that Israel is far more likely to have sent missiles to target/destroy Diego Garcia base than Iran, all to fake scare on Iran's missile range. That's just this week.
From genocide, to pager attacks, JFK, 9/11, to lies determining warmongering, Israel is not a friend to even American empire (independent of its bribed administrators) much less Americans. It uses controlling violence against America, and much more dangerous than any other nation... if we just need a war for war's sake.
The nuclear vest bomb was in a movie I have a feeling have just watched.
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.
I love how inconspicuous it is:
Like something from Looney Tunes.
Yeah. I'm imagining a suicide bomber wearing a huge fat suit like Mike Myers wore when played Fat Bastard. Just a giant fake belly with a literal nuclear bomb concealed inside.
Though really, I think the real problem with a "nuclear suicide vest" is simple practicality. Like, what's the actual point? The whole point of a suicide vest is to be able to smuggle explosives into an area where they'll do the most damage. A guy holding a bomb in his hands won't be let into a crowded bus. Someone holding a pipe bomb is going to cause people to run away from them screaming. A suicide vest bomber seeks to sneak into a crowded space densely packed with many people. Suicide bombers need to get close to large numbers of people. They need a bomb that can be concealed on their person. Otherwise they end up doing no more damage than someone could with a handgun.
But a nuke? You don't need to sneak the nuke into the stadium. You set it off five blocks away. It doesn't need to be concealed. If you want to deliver a terrorist nuking, you would instead load it on the back of a truck with heavy radiation shielding. You don't try to sneak it in to a crowded location. You just try to drive it into a dense urban area or near a critical piece of infrastructure and hope to not set off any radiation detectors along the way. A nuclear truck bomb is a reasonable fear. A nuclear suicide vest is laughable.
It could fit into a suitcase, no?
Hey sexy! Is that a rocket in your poc....holy shit! That's a godamn big whatever it is!
IT'S JUST A BACKPACK.
Maybe that's why people keep backing away from Trump. It's not incontinence, it's their dosimeter badges.
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.
Gun-type nukes are relatively easy to make and can be pretty compact. The hard part is getting the plutonium
I'm not a nuclear weapons designer, I've just read some books. But my understanding is that shaped charge implosion is better for Pu designs. It does require much less material to reach criticality. Maybe 8-9kg? vs 65kg for a U device. But I don't think Iran has been refining Pu, just U.
Whatever, punchable face.
Be careful, I got banned for saying that in Reddit.
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.
spez has AI moderation bots automatically set to permaban anyone even remotely talking of destroying Nazis and Kluxers, so we have a lot of us ending up here, and with that is now the chilling effect.
Normally I get angry at these pathological liars but this lie is so absurdly stupid that it's actually funny.
Imagine someone driving their van to a parking lot near the white house and then going "Welp, better strap on my suicide nuke that will obliterate the entire city. I see no other way of doing this."
I mean, people do strap on conventional explosive vests and set them off in crowds. That is not the absurd part.
I think their point is that the van was a much easier storage vessel, with room and penetration power. Getting out of the van and walking 30 feet has miniscule change on the effects of a munition that's blast radius and fallout are so large.
The entire idea of a vest/backpack/portable device would be more so you can get behind enemy lines by say parachute or such. Although there is no point of a parachute as you don't need to cushion your fall, and no need of the person if someone was already letting you leave said flying device.
Ah, I missed that point.
That's because thats the only way it can work with low power explosives slapped together by some group with limited resources.
The demonic ritual of human sacrifice
Cats and coyotes?
American civilians killed by Iran made nuclear slingshots and slippping on nuclear banana peels.
Won't be so funny when you fall and split your pants (nuclear-style).
I will fall face first into a nuclear cream pie
Nuclear terrorism might be a thing, but I seriously doubt that the easiest way to do it is nuclear suicide vests. Miniaturizing nuclear warheads is a pain. If you were going to do something like that, you'd be better off doing something akin to a truck bomb.
Much more likely would be a dirty bomb. Just a regular bomb with some nuclear material that it spreads. The nuclear material isn't the bomb itself, but used exclusively for the exposure effects. You don't even need plutonium or uranium for this. There are plenty of other radiological sources to make dirty bombs. Old radiographic medical equipment for instance.
There are hundreds of thousands of orphaned sources in the world. Several of them have caused the worst radiological incidents in history.
The fact we don't see this already is quite surprising.
I'm kind of skepitical of the "dirty bomb" idea. Frankly, it sounds like a load of bullshit, because of the πr^2^ thing. Namely, if you want to irradiate and area to a sufficient extent to cause immediate radiation sickness, then keeping it concentrated is your best bet. A very small bomb, at most.
The other extreme would be a huge bomb to spread radioactive material over, say, a city. At which point it barely raises the radioactivity above background levels. Or at least doesn't cause immediately apparent effects. Imagine terrorists issuing a statement like, "Sure, it doesn't seem so bad TODAY, but wait 'til you see the slight bump in cancer rates in 20 years."
Indeed, on looking it up, I see that the experts are skeptical, too, and tests conducted by Israel didn't find much effectiveness. That could be why we haven't seen one used.
Yeah, but destruction and loss of life isn't the point. Terror is. If a dirty bomb was detonated in a city, and it contained enough nuclear material to say, cause a 10% jump in cancer outlooks over a 20 year period, that's not the point.
The point is that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needs to come out, shut a city down, do all sorts of testing, clean the shit out of everything, and disrupt everyone's lives. The fear is the point, and as a fear-causing weapon, radiation is in a unique class all its own.
For that matter, then you don't need to put any radioactive material in it at all, but just claim it.
I think the value would be the 'terror' in the general public if a dirty bomb went in downtown in any major US city.
I think that would make for an ideal terrorist weapon for use against the US
Fuck - I'm probably on a watch list again. I think I was flagged post 9/11 for online chat around laptops, bottles of water and vodka. Every flight I took from 2000 to about 2007 I was pulled out and patted down/bag searched/turn laptop on/...
Honestly, the problem with a dirty bomb isn't the cancer rates or w.e, its the sheer amount of propaganda that has gone into scaring people over nuclear energy. Yes, the propaganda is mostly to stop nuclear reactors to force reliance on oil, but its still there.
I used to use a nuclear soil density gauge. The gauge was not at all scary, I could use it as a seat for a whole year, and it would have a minimal effect on my lifetime cancer rates.
But no matter how many times I explained it, as soon as I said "Nuclear Gauge" people got scared.
"Nuclear" has become a scare word, so a nuclear dirty bomb is terrifying to people.
@SwingingTheLamp Then you don't understand the concept, and that's okay. Lots of people don't understand lots of stuff. I don't understand by sports is such a big deal. But I don't call it bullshit for that reason.
A dirty bomb is a terrorist weapon. It's meant to cause terror. You're focusing on practical matters that are not important to that goal. OF COURSE it's a shitty bomb. That's why no govts make them. From a practical standpoint, it's shit. But from a terror standpoint, it's great.
Geez, you don't have to be such an ass about it. The commenter was talking about sources of radioactive materials, which is irrelevant.
@SwingingTheLamp They were being full of themselves. When you make comments in public, you elect to expose yourself to possible criticism.
You'll get over it. Get some sleep.
Yeah, but you chose to be a massive dick about it. A couple of other folks commented along similar lines, but respectfully. That's on you.
I'm not that surprised. Radiation poisoning is a special kind of torture for EVERYONE. Shit would immediately invalidate any goodwill or sympathy for whomever uses them.
It would also be dangerous and expensive for the people making it.
It also wouldn't be much more lethal than a bomb of equivalent mass. If you're close enough to get a lethal dose of polonium or w/e, you're probably also getting a lethal dose of shrapnel.
That's because you're waiting for the other side to do it. Israel has used white phosphorus many times in recent times. There were also those bombs that create such a heat vacuum, they literally incinerate humans with no trace of them left behind.
Shit now I'm imagining Tony Stark miniaturizing a nuclear warhead and immediately going "this would make a really great suicide vest"
Iran didn’t have to develop the tech itself. Clearly they have captured a Predator.
Thats.......not how nuclear arms work.
Isn't the smallest effective nuke the Davy Crocket? Pretty sure it's warhead is still the size of a large hardcase suitcase.
If the US is saying Iran could do it, the US has probably already figured it out. Fallout is getting to be too damn real
Correction an Appalachian born yuppie with no technical knowledge claims they could do it. Unless Vance got bored and went through data on the nuclear arsenal then it's probably a safe bet that he's making shit up. Tactical nukes are a thing and backpack nukes are somewhat possible by an army definition of portable, but a nuclear suicide vest is just fucking asanine. Frankly speaking given the general purge of everyone with competency and the general ratfucked nature of these waste of biological matter I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the nuclear arsenal isn't even fully understood anymore because everyone competent was fired or fucked off.
SADM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munition
the M388 looks small because you're used to seeing normal recoilless rifles, not the mongo m29 one used to propel the M388 warhead on the Crocket..
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/weapons/davy-crockett-weapon-system.html it's certainly still 'small' for a nuke, but iirc the sadm is smaller.
Isn't that from the 1950s? Maybe top secret tech has progressed since then.
It's from the 50s but as I understand it nukes as we have them now require certain physical properties and dimensions to work with that being about as small as you can get. Anything smaller and the reaction either fizzles out, you get a dirty bomb, or the explosive yield is worse than traditional explosives of equivalent size. To make it any smaller you'd need a fusion bomb most likely.
You'd still need a fission bomb, to initiate the fusion reaction.
Probably, though as I noted the problem with such small nuclear arms isn't their capacity but moreso their efficiency and consistency. A fusion bomb could help to amplify at least the capacity for destruction, assuming it can't be circumnavigated through some technological fuckery, frankly I don't think anyone can comment on fusion bombs with any degree of accuracy given that we haven't figured out sustained fusion reactors.
You need a critical mass of material to initiate an explosion. So there is a limit to how small you can get with them. That critical mass in not including all of the other gear they need attached to get it to explode.
Right? Nuclear arms are supposed to be on arm sleeves, not vests.
It would be a nuclear chest
"Vance says" is like when my 3-year-old blames everything on the cat. Who ate all the nesquik Jonathan, was it the cat, or was it you with nesquik on your face? Who can say.
No, see, a raccoon busted in here. He said, he said to me, "that nesquik is mine, Jonathan", he said, and then he ate it all, didn't even mix it with the milk, just ate it powdered, then the raccoon smeared some on me and said, "Jonathan, this is now your fault mwahaha" and ran off!
JD Vance also claims he's capable of pleasing his wife.
*couch
He can't even do that
The only way he pleases his wife is by leaving.
Cool story bro.
It stands for Jack Diznutzov. I heard it from a fella. Very smart guy.
Oh so he's a Russian plant. Good to know.
Id argue a rapist president plus a complicit govt is more dangerous. How about getting rid of those first?
It's like that man or bear situation, but the US Gov't or some hypothetical rando Iranian Nuclear Suicide Bomber?
Seems fairly obvious
When will this lying sack of shit starting painting his face orange?
His tongue is already stained orange
That was an image I definitely didn't need
Well done, it takes a lot to make me gag
A new American tradition: all incoming Presidents must paint their entire body orange
Nah, not their entire body, that would look too natural
...have a mushroom shaped micro penis, lie profusely with every exhale, shit themselves several times a day, and find themselves busy work being the president of Venezuela and robbing America blind.
Resumes now being accepted.
Every nuke can be considered a suicide bomb. Ffs get this guy out of any kind of position making decisions.
at this point, he's just my mom's facebook news feed in human form.
... and unfortunately it's working.
He should make one and demonstrate how it would work.
Why would anyone believe this? Who is ret*rded enough to believe this?
My dad
Returded? What is that, like you take a shit so hard it ricochets and goes back up your butt?
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.
I claim that Americans have idiot VP, iVP short.
I heard they're developing a new Shahed bomb that can blow up a church and rebuild it into a mosque.
Monkeys might fly out of Iran's butt.
That seems impractical.
I mean you could microwave your lunch at your desk, this is big
That's a big vest. Should be easy to spot.
For reference, the SADM portable nuke was made to be carried by paratroopers into enemy territory. 4 soldier would each carry one 18kg part of the weapon.
A 72kg vest sounds quite the chonker.
The US is incentivizing Iran to make nukes.
"Please make nukes pretty please? We can't explain this war to our people without you making nukes..."
If there's one thing that nations have learned about dealing with the U.S. it's that nukes keep you safe. Nobody is threatening to put "boots on the ground" in North Korea
I'm imagining an Iranian Sam Porter Bridges lugging around a huge nuke
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!
I think death stranding 2 just had a PC release, if that helps
And it is consuming my life.
JD Vance makes blithering halfwits sound like Einstein.
Donald Trump makes pedophile rapists look like Weinstein.
Reminder that it's a news org's job to find and report facts, instead of writing more about the new nonsense coming out of the mouths of science deniers. Obviously this is logistically impossible and just another "THEY ALMOST HAVE NUKES!!" excuse to bomb Iranians ffs
Why does anyone care what the VP thinks? His job requires him to be hosting a book club or at a state funeral or something.
It is fun to mock dumb people like him
Quick, get Jack Bauer on the case!
I wonder if they make them to fit couch fuckers.
WMD trucks was it one of the previous times the US set the region on fire, wasn't it?
Just Dumb fails to acknowledge the fucked up US healthcare system is deadlier to Americans than the stupid shit that developed in the vacuum between his ears.
Sure they could buddy... sure they could.
But we won the war and obliterated their military and nuclear programs.
Guess the US will be bombing Iran's vest factories next.
No one would do that
from couch fucker to science fiction politician, what a career!
And my dick could grow 15" over night
The fear mongering
you cant make a nuke that small
backpack? yes. vest? probably not.
Not with that attitude.
Another retread of the Iraq war. They scared us with "dirty bombs" and man pack nukes back then too.
JV Dunce may develop a sectional with dildos in all the seats, claim I.
Now why isn’t the media talking about that?
Suitcase nukes exist. But not in vest form.
AKA a snuke.
And if what i learned from South Park is true, its entirely possible to sneak a snuke up your snizz.
Hello Kitty Lunchbox Nukes! Get it done, people!
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.
I am aware it was much bigger than a suitcase. But it was portable by one person.
Maybe I lack imagination since I would never came to an idea of nuclear vest
Bet he thinks dr.thrax is a real person
Oh we're back from the wilderness scratching at the door to be let back in are we JD?
Fun fact: the smallest nuclear bomb was (is?) small enough to carry in a backpack.
Another fun fact: The United States had nuclear suicide teams
interesting
And Lee Child wrote a Jack Reacher book about it.
Wait till they develop explosive fuckable couches
This just in: USA developing suicide vests for asd/rsf.
More gaslight bullshit from th trump suckers administration of 2026.
They're just fucking shit
You can use Google maps to get directions to a lot of places ... Mar a Lago for instance.
I think it has to be a relatively large capsule or spheroid to have any yield. The form factor makes very little sense. A davey crocket is kinda the smallest?
Lololol I think this bloke's being serious
Sure, technically if it has two armholes and covers most of the upper body it can count as a vest.
Could they develop one somebody could reasonably carry around? No
Probably not, but it isn't impossible. USA spent the cold war trying to make super small nukes, to send paratroopers in with nukes, which they'd plant to sabotage shit. They were called Green Light Teams, and seemed somewhat successful.
Perhaps,
You could probably make a backpack nuke, although I don't know that Iran specifically could.
and I guess if you have a backpack nuke, you can just make it be a really bulky vest
The dude thinks couches are attractive. Not exactly a shining light in the darkness here...