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Indeed, according to many experts in the field, a well-financed group could build one that could fit into a pickup truck or a station wagon. In fact, the U.S. military has developed a 58-lb. bomb powerful enough to blow up the Golden Gate Bridge. Part of the problem is that the principles of bomb building are well known. In fact, the basic elements of the technology can be found in reference works like the Encyclopedia Americana. The trick is to place two slugs of plutonium close together in a container similar to a gun barrel, then smash...
...small nuclear device. Taylor says that if such a regime could get its hands on enough plutonium, it would require only a few thousand dollars to build a device with a yield of ten kilotons, three kilotons less than that of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, that could fit into a medium-size car. "I'd give them a pretty good chance, say, one in three, of building one that would work the first time," he says...
However, a terrorist bomb would still be so large that it would probably have to be assembled in the U.S. Making a bomb that could fit into a suitcase, says Taylor, would probably be beyond the capabilities of military designers outside the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The smallest nuclear device developed by the U.S. (SADM). Deployed since 1964, it can be carried by one man and is designed to destroy dams, bridges and similar installations. According to William Arkin, a defense specialist with the Institute for Policy Studies, a private Washington-based research organization, the U.S. has about...
...uniform skirt and fishnets. Sometimes I like really expensive things. I like Vivienne & Westwood, Commes des Garcons and Jean Paul Gaultier. But I get a lot of stuff in thrift shops too. I really love dresses like Marilyn Monroe wore, those '50s dresses that were really tailored to fit a voluptuous body. A lot of stuff made now is for an androgynous figure, and it doesn't look good on me. I have always sort of elaborated with my dance clothes. I used to live in my dance clothes, my tights and leotards, but I always personalized them...
Some Protestants were irritated by the omissions, deeming the Pope less than candid. Nonetheless, the self-censorship seemed to fit John Paul's overall strategy of being as diplomatic as possible on Dutch soil and making more gestures of mollification toward his critics than is customary. Despite the disappointments on the trip, he was not defiant but uncharacteristically plaintive and conciliatory. At the youth rally in Amersfoort, he pleaded, "You must continue to tell us everything honestly. But you must also listen to our criticisms...