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The US made, in its dr. strangelove years, 2100 "davey crocket" backpacks that were 51lbs. The suicide vest is an arab insurgent tool, and meant to be much more discrete.
Iran is pretty good at missiles, and 4 weeks ago, and for last 30 years, was supposedly 2 weeks away from a nuke, as well as having a thing against Israel.
A backpack device is BIG. It could not be concealed like a suicide vest. It also requires nuclear materials (plutonium) and a specialty implosion design and triggers Iran does not have.
An Atomic Demolition Munition was nearly the size of a 55-gallon drum and came in two(?) pieces -- the weapon itself and the equipment to detonate it -- for making it easier to transport.
The SADM is 4 pieces, each weighing 18kg.
Nobody's walking around with a nuke vest. Why bother? Bomb vests are made so you can walk into a crowded place. With a nuke, just drive it in a truck in the targeted neighborhood.
This is just Vance trying to scare some support into the disaster that Trump started to make us forget about Epstein.
yeah the idea that Iran would use humans as delivery mechanism for nuclear weapons is a form of racist fetishization. it's maddening, this man. but then. i'm appalachian. i'm the hillbilly that racist carpet-baggging son of a bitch hayseed spoke ill of in his book. and i swear to GOD that man put soap in the cast iron skillet i'm gonna hit him in the face with
FWIW, wp:Suitcase nuclear device.
Sounds like US should bomb Israel or JD Vance. NYC terrorist plot, and Assassination/intimidation attempt against peace intermediaries in Pakistan... just yesterday. NATO has essentially confirmed that Israel is far more likely to have sent missiles to target/destroy Diego Garcia base than Iran, all to fake scare on Iran's missile range. That's just this week.
From genocide, to pager attacks, JFK, 9/11, to lies determining warmongering, Israel is not a friend to even American empire (independent of its bribed administrators) much less Americans. It uses controlling violence against America, and much more dangerous than any other nation... if we just need a war for war's sake.
The nuclear vest bomb was in a movie I have a feeling have just watched.