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For delivery, I've always wondered if it was possible to smuggle them in, say, by car. No need for a rocket or anything. Then hide them in the target country
by hyperman1 5y ago
For delivery, I've always wondered if it was possible to smuggle them in, say, by car. No need for a rocket or anything. Then hide them in the target country in some underground facility or whatever in a big city. If Ukraine did that 10 years ago with Moscow, they could trigger them the second their border was violated.
This is probably laughably unpractical, I just don't know why. Radiation? Maintenance? Just the fact that you can only use them, not threaten with them?
- edmcnulty101 5y agoThis is interesting. Curious about this as well. Rent a warehouse or storage unit and just keep the nukes there.
- N19PEDL2 5y ago> you can only use them, not threaten with them IMO this. The real reason of existence of nuclear weapons is deterrence, not actual retaliation. If you reach the point of nuclear retaliation, then you only get MAD (mutual assured destruction) and no one wins. > For delivery, I've always wondered if it was possible to smuggle them in, say, by car. No need for a rocket or anything. If you're interested on this possibility, a good movie I can recommend is "The Sum of All Fears" (2002).
- justaj 5y agoWouldn't the nuclear signature of something like that be trivially detectable though?