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Russia arranged for Iran to receive six SS-19 warheads, two SS-19 ICBM equivalents–plus 375 suitcase nukes!
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Suitcase nukes is a cold war myth embellished by Hollywood. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 10673393 False Quoting: Anonymous Coward 10529676 Okay maybe I overstated the role Hollywood movies specifically had in creating this. I should have just written "media". Still though, fact is no one has ever been able to verify the actual existence of a single device that would fall into the category of a nuclear weapon that could be carried by a person in a container similar to a suitcase. The term suitcase nuke has actually always really only refereed to a bomb strapped to something mobile, say a car, truck or a bus. But yeah the public always tends to read things literally so a "suitcase sized bomb" it became. There is more than enough information out there today for those that want to update their views on this. I am not saying smaller bombs are theoretically impossible, at one point both USA and USSR experimented with devices down to the 1 kilo size, however no one has ever been known to actually have made one that fits the myth of the one man bomb, and none of the designs known today even suggest it as a practical, economical or a safe option. For the USSR, creating a suitcase sized bomb with low yield had no strategical interest, however it did provide a good propaganda scare and so they produced that. The smallest nuclear devices the Soviets actually had however were footlocker sized. Those were the bombs Lebed referred to when he said they had been stolen, however that is another myth. They have never been unaccounted for, and today they are no more.
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