Great. You finally made a nuclear bomb. Gadzooks!
Now what? It’s going to blow up? Sorry, it won’t. First of all, a nuclear bomb is about the size of a Volkswagen. And those are the smaller ones. Remember reading about suitcase nukes? No such thing unless they are talking about a suitcase as big as a Volkswagen. There are no suitcase nukes or footlocker nukes or any of that. The USSR was trying to develop the tech but they were never able to do so. All of the BS suitcase nuke lies come from that failed program. The lies state that Russia actually made some of these suitcase nukes and now they are floating around. They didn’t and they aren’t.
Now I could take that nuclear bomb and drop it on your head. It would kill you but only crushing you because but it would not blow up. I could get higher and drop it on your house now and once again it would not blow up but it would put a big hole in your house just by smashing through it. I could fire guns at the nuke. I could set it on fire. I could take little pipe bombs and throw them at the nuke. Nothing would happen in any case although if you somehow set it on fire, there would be radiation release. Even if you somehow managed to blow one up, maybe by putting it on the ground and then dropping a bomb on it, not much would happen.
That is called a uranium bomb. If you blow up a uranium bomb, it would contaminate a one square mile area for about 100 years and if you blew it up ion Manhattan, you would kill 1,000 people, but they would die slowly over 50 years, mostly of cancer at a rate of about 20 people/year.
So there’s your suitcase nukes bullshit. It would kill 1,000 people max over a 50 year period, except it’s as big as a Volkswagen, so good luck sneaking it into Manhattan and also good luck blowing the thing up, which would not be easy at all in Manhattan. In fact, I do not see how you would even blow it up in Manhattan unless you flew a fighter jet over Manhattan and dropped a bomb on it. There you have the whole story of the suitcase nukes bullshit which is so terrifying because it could blow up Manhattan, except it’s not even that scary and it couldn’t do that, and even what it could do is probably not even possible.
But it sure is a great story and money making opportunity for the terrorism experts who make money based on how many lies they can tell about terrorism and how much they can scare you about phantom terrorist threats.