Latest from the relgion of peace......

[R1Geezer]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1 317360,00.html
How should the west respond to a WMD attack?

[jake-the-peg]

Or 4GS Putin and co could supply them with some modern weapons perhaps? or Polonium maybe.

17 antique devices that are believed to have once existed on the basis of unexamined intelligence are neither here nor there in the scheme of international security.

There were plenty of nuclear scare stories going around in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse - nuclear suitcases were one, red mercury was another.

The dirty bomb with bog standard radio-isotopes are easy to make and would cause human and financial chaos if detonated somewhere like London or New York.

The world's moved on from scare sories of nuclear hand grenades

[jake-the-peg]

Oh this is the stuff about the suitcase nukes

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/Lebedbomb .html

You can judge for yourselves how credible Alexander Lebed was

[keyplus90]

Here are some statistics about nuclear weapons, You can clearly see who have more power to destroy the world and humanity.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campai gns/peace/abolish-nuclear-weapons/the-vital-st atistics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7 420573.stm

[4GS]

From another website:
The Russian government's statements on this matter have been contradictory. First they denied that such weapons had ever existed; then they said that all of them had been destroyed. However, the highest-ranking GRU defector Stanislav Lunev confirmed that such Russian-made devices do exist and described them in more detail [2]. These devices, �identified as RA-115s (or RA-115-01s for submersible weapons)� weigh from fifty to sixty pounds. They can last for many years if wired to an electric source. �In case there is a loss of power, there is a battery backup. If the battery runs low, the weapon has a transmitter that sends a coded message � either by satellite or directly to a GRU post at a Russian embassy or consulate.� According to Lunev, the number of �missing� nuclear devices (as found by General Lebed) �is almost identical to the number of strategic targets upon which those bombs would be used�. He suggested that they might be already deployed by the GRU operatives.

We can argue whether or not you believe in them jake. May I make a suggestion? Get first hand experience of things you try to rubbish, not from your 'chattering classes' viewpoint

[Gromit]

You missed the previous paragraph 4GS

"However, the Russian government immediately rejected Lebed's claims. Russia's atomic energy ministry went so far as to dispute that suitcase nuclear weapons had even ever been developed by the Soviet Union. Later testimony however insinuated that the suitcase bombs had been under the control of the KGB and not the army or the atomic energy ministry, so they might not know of their existence. Russian president Vladimir Putin, in an interview with Barbara Walters in 2001, stated about suitcase nukes, "I don't really believe this is true. These are just legends. One can probably assume that somebody tried to sell some nuclear secrets. But there is no documentary confirmation of those developments."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_bomb