Nukes found in libya

No one, none of the sources the OP has shown, claims that Libya has a dirty bomb. As for components being nuclear weapons... only in the same sense that a pile of car parts laying in a heap on my front lawn is a car.

As stated in my previous post, the claim by the Prime Minister was "nuclear weapons", but the exact nature was not specified. It could be anything from Soviet loose nukes bought from the Russian Mob to a pound of Cesium-137 extracted from old dental X-ray machines.

Your car analogy doesn't fly since nuclear material, all by itself, is dangerous just as a pound of High Explosive is dangerous even if it isn't assembled into a time bomb with a detonator, battery and a timer.
 
No one, none of the sources the OP has shown, claims that Libya has a dirty bomb. As for components being nuclear weapons... only in the same sense that a pile of car parts laying in a heap on my front lawn is a car.

As stated in my previous post, the claim by the Prime Minister was "nuclear weapons", but the exact nature was not specified. It could be anything from Soviet loose nukes bought from the Russian Mob to a pound of Cesium-137 extracted from old dental X-ray machines.

Your car analogy doesn't fly since nuclear material, all by itself, is dangerous just as a pound of High Explosive is dangerous even if it isn't assembled into a time bomb with a detonator, battery and a timer.

He to stuck in chasing me to see that point you made.
 
No one, none of the sources the OP has shown, claims that Libya has a dirty bomb. As for components being nuclear weapons... only in the same sense that a pile of car parts laying in a heap on my front lawn is a car.

As stated in my previous post, the claim by the Prime Minister was "nuclear weapons", but the exact nature was not specified. It could be anything from Soviet loose nukes bought from the Russian Mob to a pound of Cesium-137 extracted from old dental X-ray machines.

Your car analogy doesn't fly since nuclear material, all by itself, is dangerous just as a pound of High Explosive is dangerous even if it isn't assembled into a time bomb with a detonator, battery and a timer.

I pile of yellow cake uranium is not a 'weapon'... not until someone weaponizes it.
 
No one, none of the sources the OP has shown, claims that Libya has a dirty bomb. As for components being nuclear weapons... only in the same sense that a pile of car parts laying in a heap on my front lawn is a car.

As stated in my previous post, the claim by the Prime Minister was "nuclear weapons", but the exact nature was not specified. It could be anything from Soviet loose nukes bought from the Russian Mob to a pound of Cesium-137 extracted from old dental X-ray machines.

Your car analogy doesn't fly since nuclear material, all by itself, is dangerous just as a pound of High Explosive is dangerous even if it isn't assembled into a time bomb with a detonator, battery and a timer.

I pile of yellow cake uranium is not a 'weapon'... not until someone weaponizes it.

True. Since we don't yet know the nature of the "nuclear weapons" the PM mentioned, we're only guessing. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. Given the amount of technology involved, my first bet would be a dirty bomb of some sort.
 
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